Nice use of consistent present tense, always a bit of a challenge to stay in. And I like the set-up for an ominous ending there…all a very real, believable, and challenging situation for which you’ve presented a very tempting solution.
LoA

Thanks. My first Ficlet as well as my first bit of fiction writing in a long, long time. Hopefully I can WD-40 the rust out of my prose and get good at these snippets of creative writing.