Diary of a Submissive: A Modern True Tale of Sexual Awakening by Sophie Morgan

Author:Sophie Morgan [Morgan, Sophie]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Romance, Biography & Autobiography, Personal Memoirs, Biography, Non-Fiction
ISBN: 9781592408252
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2012-09-04T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Ten

The move was both a long time coming and something that

happened ridiculously quickly. I’d been at my paper for al-

most three years. The nature of regional journalism is very

much that wages start low and don’t get too much better unless

you can get promoted. There’s a straightforward process to go

from trainee to senior reporter, and the next obvious step if you want to stay in the same company is to go for a specialism or

move into management, the first rung of which is becoming a

news editor.

I genuinely loved my paper, my patch and my newsroom.

The people— both my colleagues and the people I talked to

through the course of writing my stories— were, for the most

part, interesting and good natured, and our news area was big

enough that there was always something good going on. But the

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fact was it wasn’t just me who loved the dynamic of the news-

room. There were no specialisms available, and the news editor,

deputy editor and editor had around forty years’ experience at

the paper between them and weren’t going anywhere till it was

time for retirement.

There was no chance of promotion, and while thinking

about leaving made me sad, a couple of things made me decide

it was time— firstly, the fact that my salary, even as a senior, made for a pretty frugal life once my student loan, rent and bills were paid, and secondly, that I missed my family more and

more. My parents came to visit whenever they could, filling my

fridge and taking me out for lunches and clothes shopping

when they did in a way that made me hug them even tighter

and feel even more bereft when they went home. I popped

home for a weekend every couple of months to see them and

my sister, but suddenly it didn’t feel enough. Every time I saw

them my parents seemed a little older— their hair flecked with

a little more silver, always an anecdote about a trip to the doctors with a new ailment for one or other of them. I wanted to be closer, to see them more regularly, although I wasn’t planning a full return to the nest, as I was pretty sure that the novelty of me moving home would wear off sharpish once they had to live

with me full time.

As there were no promotions available I did the next best

thing for a journalist wanting to progress their career— I moved to a bigger patch and paper, where the money was slightly better and which, happily, was much closer to my parents. Of course,

by the time I’d found somewhere to live the increase in pay had

been eaten up, but my mom popped around a couple of times a

week with portions of whatever new recipe she’d been trying

“for the freezer” or a cake, which helped me eke my money out

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(and her lemon cake made me friends in my new newsroom—

there’s only so much cake one woman can eat after all).

Apart from the return into my life of epic baked goods and

Sunday

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