Year 3023.
“Hey mom, have you received the money I wired already?”
“Yeah, thank you sweet pea. This is a great help, really…”
She smiled when her mother’s reassuring tone echoed from the other side of the line. Good thing she decided to set the call in a loud speaker. This way, she can multitask by putting make-up on and entertaining the feeling of her longing for her family.
“Yeah, yeah. Make sure to buy dad’s complete medication list, alright? I’ll send money again next week…hold on.” The woman shook her tiny tube of red liquid lipstick before twisting it clockwise to reveal an almost empty amount of product. She was already barely scraping the red stain product from the bottom of the tube by the time she got a decent amount to cover the surface of her lips.
She made a mental n
