FFS

When the Cosmos Comes Calling

Answer your damn phone

Audrey Wells
5 min readApr 28, 2022

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I do.

Regularly and often.

Even when it doesn’t stop the shit from hitting the fan.

Pro tip: Your cosmic karma will only leave so many messages because you’re too busy to answer before it does something pretty fucking dramatic to cut through all your brilliance and denial.

I survived a Global Pandemic, an Illegal Eviction, and a Santa Ria Curse

And all I got for my trouble was Sacramento’s version of an illegal yet court-sanctioned Squid Game.

It’s called Pay to Play, and it’s not for the faint of heart or bank account.

I’m thinking I lost so hard, so fast, and so epically because my ability to smell a human rat has never been that great if I’m being honest.

And the fact that on an average day in my prior means of survival by peddling junk — on your best day you’re either going to be the rat, the cheese — or both.

Need I say more?

So by the time I’d reached January 2019 after 25+ years of brick and mortar and online-proprietressing while surviving a 5-alarm fire that nearly wiped out my entire inventory in October 2018.

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Audrey Wells

i’m on a quest. just like y’all. #WEareALLinTHIS2gether ❤https://audreywells.com/