S.E. Akins

Life's Work

Lisa turned her car off, cracked the window for some misty morning air, and got ready for a fresh round of worrying. It wasn't just that she'd shown up an hour early for her new job, although she had. It wasn't because her car had begun to make an ominous ticking noise, either. No indeed: she was thinking about her student loans. The job market was bad-- really bad-- radioactive, even-- and she had delayed the payments as long as she could...