Storm Over the Lake (1979)
“Dana Meredith crossed out her second try at a lead for the news-feature she was writing about the city’s new school superintendent. Cheating with a pen and paper, she grimaced at the computer that had replaced her old electric typewriter and stacks of paper. Some things about modern journalism were just a bit much.For instance, this neat, uncluttered, impeccable news-room. She sighed. Her first job had been on a weekly newspaper, in an office where visitors always seemed to giggle when they not...iced the paper wadded and folded and sitting in lopsided stacks on the desk that probably had a top somewhere under all that clutter. A smile touched her mouth at the memory. Along with the clutter and the long hours and the variety of jobs—everything from writing to proofreading to pasting up to delivering the paper—had come a sense of belonging that made any sacrifice worthwhile. Then, too, there had been the aura of excitement that came with working for an editor who was already a legend—an awesome experience that time had never dulled.Dana would never have left voluntarily.MoreLess
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