Bulldogs & Bullets: A Dog Town USA Cozy Mystery by Meg Muldoon

Author:Meg Muldoon [Muldoon, Meg]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Publisher: Vacant Lot Publishing
Published: 2016-05-22T04:00:00+00:00

The school board member’s meeting was over, whether or not he knew it yet.

Chapter 28

I squinted hard and studied the atrocious, raggedy scrawl that filled the notepad I had specifically reserved for the school board candidate profile piece, transcribing the words to a digital document in our newsroom cloud program.

To most, the handwriting would have been completely illegible mental-patient scribbling. But after nearly seven years of being a reporter, I had developed my own system of notes and was able to – for the most part – understand what I meant by the rushed lettering.

The interview with Taylor High had gone well, considering that I had been in tears only moments before sitting down with him. But like a professional, I’d carried on with the interview despite how I was feeling inside. And by the end of it, I’d even been able to laugh at a joke or two the blue-eyed blond-haired school board member had told.

Taylor had brought with him a German shepherd called Peyton. The creature was a large, unfriendly dog that always seemed to be just moments away from snarling at me. But it couldn’t be denied that the dog was photogenic, and that the photos of Taylor with Peyton would most likely go towards solidifying his election victory this November. The dog conveyed the stance that Taylor wanted voters to see – the tough, no-nonsense, let’s-protect-our-schools-come-hell-or-high-water image that had been popular with voters last school board election.

It was going to be an absurd article. Probably one of the most absurd that I’d ever written in my career. But at the moment, I was just glad to have a distraction. That way, I could try and ignore what had happened right before the interview.

But try as I might, the conversation with Jimmy started to creep back into my head at every turn.

Why had I been so honest about my feelings? Why had I said those things I’d kept to myself all this time? Why had I exposed myself like tha—

“I’m holding the dog poop story, Ms. Wolf.”

I looked up from my computer, finding Kobritz standing next to my cubicle.

“Okay,” I said.

I had expected as much, especially since my main source for the story had disappeared.

“It’s not there yet,” he said. “Which I see now isn’t necessarily your fault. But nonetheless, it isn’t A1 material.”

“I understand,” I said.

“And besides, we’ve got a couple of Mr. Royce’s pieces running about Melinda Monahan’s disappearance that’ll take your story’s place on Sunday.”

I bit my lip.

“That’s fine,” I said, trying not to take it too personally.

I went back to typing, but felt Kobritz still looking at me.

He cleared his throat.

“Uh, thanks for taking on the school board candidate story,” he said, shifting his weight between one pleated khaki leg and then the other. “I know I don’t have to tell you this, but every story matters equally when you’re looking at holes in the paper, Ms. Wolf. So I appreciate you stepping up and taking this on.”

I didn’t really have much of

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