It. (rasatabula) wrote in repose, @ 2018-09-14 19:39:00 |
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Entry tags: | *log, jack penhaligon, mj jackson |
Jack & MJ: the paper
Who: Jack and MJ
What: An interview for the paper
Warnings: Nada
Jack didn't know how he felt about the paper. Once it had been if not exactly thriving, then at least humming quietly and occasionally in tune. It had produced thick wodges of adverts and polite, nothing stories about bake-sales and the local library trying to raise money to replace all the books with authors whose names began with a B after a very particular sort of criminal removed them all. But it hadn't told a decent story in decades and Repose, Jack was beginning to learn, didn't bloody want insanity thrown onto the doorstep to read with their coffee. Certainly, it didn't make money.
And then there was the fact the bottom had fallen out of the paper when the rumors had run around town. It wasn't that they lasted particularly more than the other sort of rumors in town but rather he'd lost the appetite a little to shop around adverts and put the paper back on its (old, rather doddering) feet. Cat who had purchased all the sleek, electronic equipment that ran the thing through the printers, had effectively put it back to square bloody one. Jack looked at the office, from the doorway to the paper itself, and left the door from the hall to the large, open room that was desks and computers, printers and discussion space that was the paper, and went into the editor's office, a room of glass walls and sagging blinds, and the couch and the bloody awards that had put him here in the first place.
If he rummaged, there was whiskey in the third drawer down. He knew this, even as he anticipated the intern. Bright and shiny, no doubt. School credit for journalism. Didn't they do the windy, arse-end of nowhere jobs for the local paper anymore? Jack sized up the location of the nearest glass and set it down on the desk end nearest and dropped the pile of now old, yellowing papers from the chair behind the desk to the floor, and sat down.