Kerry Headley writes in Portland, OR. Her work has appeared in The Nervous Breakdown, Treehouse, Cedars, and as part of the Readers Report series in The Rumpus. Kerry received her MFA in Creative Writing from UNC Wilmington where she also taught creative writing. Find her on Twitter @KerryHeadley1.
How can it be that the system—the one you paid into for twenty-plus years— doesn’t have remedies for people like you—normally highly employable, but momentarily in need of assistance?