Falling Star
“It was day three of her suspension. Day three that she was off the air. Still, on each of those days, she'd forced herself to go through the same ritualistic exercise of going to work, despite the stupefying reality that she had nothing to do there. She'd been purged from The KXLA Primetime News as thoroughly as if the letters of her name had been deleted from the alphabet.
She pulled the key from the ignition and set the hand brake. To her at least this ritual did have a point.
Everyone expected her to stay home and out of sight. That was what all suspended people did: retreat into their humiliation. But Natalie would neither skulk nor hide. Out of sight, out of mind.
So I refuse to go out of sight.
She grabbed her purse and briefcase and headed for the loading dock entrance to the gray fortresslike news building. Nor was her suspension the only vigil she was maintaining. The other was the wait for Geoff's call. They'd spoken only once, by phone, since the day of her arrest. It had b...een a brief, unsatisfying conversation in which neither of them had neared the topic of their love-making.MoreLess
She pulled the key from the ignition and set the hand brake. To her at least this ritual did have a point.
Everyone expected her to stay home and out of sight. That was what all suspended people did: retreat into their humiliation. But Natalie would neither skulk nor hide. Out of sight, out of mind.
So I refuse to go out of sight.
She grabbed her purse and briefcase and headed for the loading dock entrance to the gray fortresslike news building. Nor was her suspension the only vigil she was maintaining. The other was the wait for Geoff's call. They'd spoken only once, by phone, since the day of her arrest. It had b...een a brief, unsatisfying conversation in which neither of them had neared the topic of their love-making.MoreLess
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