“What do we have here?” asked the detective.
“Female, single, 60-something, sleeping pills,” the coroner responded.
“Anything else?”
“An empty Cuervo bottle, a pink slip, an eviction notice. A bare cupboard; wearing a new Gucci nightgown…”
“Cause of death?”
“A lethal mix of economic strangulation, diehard aspirations, and early-onset poverty.”
Monica Perez Nevarez is a sustainability consultant by day, and an aspiring writer and social critic at any other time, researching the many everyday things that can kill you while living in a collapsing economy.
Hope this does not prove ‘topical’. Very well done.
Thank you Christine!
early-onset poverty, a brilliant turn of phrase
Thank you Eileen! I changed it after my “last read,” because I thought the previous word, “sudden,” did not describe the shock of forced retirement. Glad you like it!
I really liked this one.
Thank you Jane!
It’s too close for comfort.