Polished Off (2011)
Polished Off
“Jodi’s story about the overweight girl getting run out of the pageant haunted me. If she wouldn’t give me a list of the contestants, how could I get the girl’s name? Maybe the newspaper? They usually published a story or two about the pageant. I didn’t want to trek down to the Gazette’s offices and burrow through the morgue so I sat on the steps outside the theater and called my friend Addie McGowan. In her mid-sixties, Addie had been a reporter for the Gazette but now spent most of her time ru...nning the newspaper’s morgue, only returning to reporting if a story caught her fancy.
“McGowan,” she answered on the first ring, her raspy voice testifying to her years as a smoker.
“Addie! It’s Grace. You busy?” I explained what I was after.
“Shouldn’t be a problem,” she said. An audible exhalation told me she was sneaking cigarettes at her basement desk again. “Back issues that recent are actually online. Hold a mo and I’ll pull them up.”
I listened to keyboard clickings for several minutes.MoreLess
“McGowan,” she answered on the first ring, her raspy voice testifying to her years as a smoker.
“Addie! It’s Grace. You busy?” I explained what I was after.
“Shouldn’t be a problem,” she said. An audible exhalation told me she was sneaking cigarettes at her basement desk again. “Back issues that recent are actually online. Hold a mo and I’ll pull them up.”
I listened to keyboard clickings for several minutes.MoreLess
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