Mistress
“The capital is sweltering today, and it’s so bright you have to squint. It makes it more challenging to look around for people watching you, following you, hunting you.I feel a measure of relief and comfort as I push through the revolving door of the ground-level offices of Capital Beat. The chaos of the street noise is immediately replaced with the hushed urgency of a newsroom. The Beat is small, taking up only the ground floor of the four-story building I inherited, but I’ve packed it with a ...maze of cubicles—enough to accommodate the staff who keep the business running.
An unfamiliar face greets me at the front desk. She must be the new receptionist I haven’t been in to meet yet. “May I help you, sir?” she asks politely.A head pops up from within the maze, and the advertising layout coordinator, Shari—in the newspaper business known as the “dummy”—breaks into a grin.“Hey!” she says, more loudly than necessary. “Look who decided to grace us with an appearance!”Immediately, five other heads pop up from different cubicles and shout greetings.“You guys look like prairie dogs when you do that,”MoreLess
An unfamiliar face greets me at the front desk. She must be the new receptionist I haven’t been in to meet yet. “May I help you, sir?” she asks politely.A head pops up from within the maze, and the advertising layout coordinator, Shari—in the newspaper business known as the “dummy”—breaks into a grin.“Hey!” she says, more loudly than necessary. “Look who decided to grace us with an appearance!”Immediately, five other heads pop up from different cubicles and shout greetings.“You guys look like prairie dogs when you do that,”MoreLess
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