Creative Concepts #6: Brink

Write a story about someone or something that is on the brink of collapse.

A person, a couple, a friendship, a household, a machine, a club, a pet, a business, a community, a society, a planet.

Are you going to chronicle its disintegration? Or its salvation?

Who or what is bringing it down? Who has the power to turn it around? Who resists their efforts and why?