Characters: Aiden Adams, Calvin Ryan Setting: Calvin’s Apartment Content: Safe Summary: Aiden chases down a likely story.
Aiden always had five or six stories on a go, always a couple of leads to follow up. Some didn’t pan out, or went cold before he could gather enough information to write something useful. Other times another reporter got there first. It made sense for him to always have a few lines to follow in case he had to drop something quickly.
A story on mental health care in Axis wasn’t exactly something he consider especially exciting but it was worthy and it would fill a few column inches. He’d gotten the guy’s name from some files an old source at the hospital had given him. The guy was young, nice looking if you liked his kind of look and he’d suit the sort of look Aiden wanted the story to have. He was someone that readers would empathize with. It sounded a bit crass, and no doubt there were ugly people with more laudable stories but they didn’t sell papers.
He knocked on the door. “Mr Ryan? Are you in? I’d like to have a moment of your time.”