Blessed Are Those Who Mourn (2015)
“Flickering candlelight distorts the hazy images of dozens of people holding candles. A low blanket of gray clouds obscures the night sky, making the darkness deep and impenetrable, but across the sand, faces glow almost eerily above candles. Nothing about this seems real.
My breath catches as I spot Lopez snapping photos, crouching in the sand, the flash going off sporadically. He’s not here as my friend. He’s here as a journalist. He’s covering this for our newspaper. Seeing him on assign...ment at my daughter’s vigil is a dose of reality I don’t want.
Grace has been gone for more than fifty-three hours.
TV reporters hover at the periphery of the crowd, and I feel a mixture of hatred and gratefulness toward them. The more media coverage, the more likely that news of Grace’s disappearance will spread and the greater the chance that somebody who knows or saw something will come forward.
Then I spot Kellogg, and Nicole, and some other reporters I know.MoreLess
My breath catches as I spot Lopez snapping photos, crouching in the sand, the flash going off sporadically. He’s not here as my friend. He’s here as a journalist. He’s covering this for our newspaper. Seeing him on assign...ment at my daughter’s vigil is a dose of reality I don’t want.
Grace has been gone for more than fifty-three hours.
TV reporters hover at the periphery of the crowd, and I feel a mixture of hatred and gratefulness toward them. The more media coverage, the more likely that news of Grace’s disappearance will spread and the greater the chance that somebody who knows or saw something will come forward.
Then I spot Kellogg, and Nicole, and some other reporters I know.MoreLess
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