Teensy Tiny Tales

Planning for Retirement

Mary smiled at the figure printed on her savings account passbook.

She’d earned every penny too, through decades of putting up with the odious Messrs. Waxman. She was chased round desks in her twenties and thirties by the elder Waxman and, in her forties, deflected propositions from the disgusting younger Waxman -finally achieving the invisibility she desired in her fifties.

That’s when she was able to siphon off money through fake contractors and vendors, depositing the funds in her own account.

And today, she would buy a controlling interest in the company. She couldn’t wait to see the Waxmans melt.




100 Words

Written for "Drabble Activity 2024" 

Week 5

Prompt - A story involving a crime – murder, robbery (theft) or embezzlement