Be Mine
“Showing up the way he did at Hooper’s funeral was disturbing. Even if a man were traumatized by a divorce, he’d have better sense than to hit on his old high school girlfriend at a time like that. And the flowers with those cryptic sophomoric notes.
Yarrow was a whack job.
Tom stopped at a red light. The more he considered Yarrow the more it concerned him. He checked the time. It was late but he was too jacked up to sleep. He’d swing by the paper and see if Lil got any hits from her search.
He ...signed in at security.
“You’re working late, buddy boy,” Lester the guard said.
“Always working, pal. Whether I’m here or there, I’m always working.”
The night desk staff was gone.
The building trembled ever so slightly with the hum of the Star’s big German presses several floors below. The newsroom was deserted except for Josh, the twenty-two-year-old news assistant-slash-intern. He was listening to a portable police scanner and watching From Here to Eternity.
Tom waved as he strode by to his desk, taking in San Francisco’s skyline from the windows at the far end of the floor.MoreLess
Yarrow was a whack job.
Tom stopped at a red light. The more he considered Yarrow the more it concerned him. He checked the time. It was late but he was too jacked up to sleep. He’d swing by the paper and see if Lil got any hits from her search.
He ...signed in at security.
“You’re working late, buddy boy,” Lester the guard said.
“Always working, pal. Whether I’m here or there, I’m always working.”
The night desk staff was gone.
The building trembled ever so slightly with the hum of the Star’s big German presses several floors below. The newsroom was deserted except for Josh, the twenty-two-year-old news assistant-slash-intern. He was listening to a portable police scanner and watching From Here to Eternity.
Tom waved as he strode by to his desk, taking in San Francisco’s skyline from the windows at the far end of the floor.MoreLess
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