Time to Go

All things end.

Kristen Haveman
Microcosm
Published in
2 min readDec 16, 2021

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Photo by Petr Macháček on Unsplash

Day after day, year after year, complaints whizzed through wires, bounced off cell towers and crash-landed into the eardrums of Becky Sprite. For twenty years, she soothed frustrations, applied balm to woes, while rolling her eyes. “Yes, it’s us” call center, had wrung every dream from Becky’s body, but today came freedom. Today was her last day before tipping into retirement.

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Kristen Haveman
Microcosm

I am a dabbler and a story teller. Worked as a journalist for local small time paper but have a love of fiction with a to be read list to prove it.