What True Crime Podcasts Have Taught Me
By Esha Khimji
- My husband/boyfriend is most likely to kill me
- If he doesn’t and some other man does, people will remember his name and forget mine
- Blue Apron is a quick and easy way to cook
- I have been socialised to be too polite and accommodating and that’s what will get me killed
- I will also be killed if I try to set boundaries
- If I date a younger man, he will definitely kill me for my money and I will be unforgivably naive for thinking a younger man found me attractive
- Blue Apron is a quick and easy way to cook
- If I am murdered, the best I’ll get is pity and the worst I’ll get is too fucked up to mention here
- I need to double and triple check my phone is, in fact, connected to my Bluetooth headphones lest I traumatize everyone on my morning commute
- If my murderer is halfway decent looking, he will have fans
- The police won’t do anything until I am actually dead
- The police especially won’t do anything because I am not a pretty white girl
- I can listen to more podcasts on the Wondery App
- Blue Apron is a quick and easy way to cook
Esha Khimji is a new writer living in Scotland. She holds a degree in Economic and Social History, works a 9-to-5, and writes to stay sane. Her writing focuses on themes of self-preservation in the face of inequality and its interplay with desires that stretch past “one’s lot in life.” Her work has recently appeared in Short Beasts and Steam Ticket: A Third Coast Review.
Photo credit: Photo by Omar Ramadan on Unsplash.
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