Loss
“I didn’t know when the opportunity I needed would present itself, but if it didn’t, I’d have to make it happen. And soon.
As I crossed the road I caught sight of a newsagent’s bill. It screamed at me: CITY BUSINESSMAN MURDERED.
Rasher had got his headline.
I went into the shop and picked up the Hootsman, read the byline first – old habits die hard. It was one of the new batch of college interns, I didn’t know her. I thanked Christ I was no longer a hack: her intro read like shit. A worn clichéd... comma-splice. If I was still holding down a desk, I’d be chucking up in one of its drawers about now.
The paper had obviously very little to go on. They’d run a few inches on the murder in the Meadows earlier but now the police had released Michael’s name and the fact that he was a prominent local businessman. The wannabe reporter speculated wildly about the investigation, great swathes of editorialising that made me wince. But the thrust of the tale was factual. Fitz had given them a bland statement that read: ‘Police are following a definite line of inquiry.’ Thought: Boilerplate.MoreLess
As I crossed the road I caught sight of a newsagent’s bill. It screamed at me: CITY BUSINESSMAN MURDERED.
Rasher had got his headline.
I went into the shop and picked up the Hootsman, read the byline first – old habits die hard. It was one of the new batch of college interns, I didn’t know her. I thanked Christ I was no longer a hack: her intro read like shit. A worn clichéd... comma-splice. If I was still holding down a desk, I’d be chucking up in one of its drawers about now.
The paper had obviously very little to go on. They’d run a few inches on the murder in the Meadows earlier but now the police had released Michael’s name and the fact that he was a prominent local businessman. The wannabe reporter speculated wildly about the investigation, great swathes of editorialising that made me wince. But the thrust of the tale was factual. Fitz had given them a bland statement that read: ‘Police are following a definite line of inquiry.’ Thought: Boilerplate.MoreLess
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