The Misogynist by Steve Jackowski

Author:Steve Jackowski [Jackowski, Steve]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780989972987
Published: 2019-06-23T22:00:00+00:00

Chapter 4

“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”

- Malcom X

1

George Gray settled into his chair and put his feet up on his desk. He grabbed the whiffle basketball and tossed a perfect swish shot into the small basket mounted on the top edge of his cubicle wall. Finally, a quiet day. He had no urgent stories to work on since he was winding down his work load in preparation for the vacation that he and Morris had discussed. It would be his first since starting at the Sentinel.

More than a month had passed since the last murder, and while what’s-his-name promised more to come, George was happy for the respite. He and Janey were finally going to take a real honeymoon. In two days, they were off to Tahiti for sun, sand, snorkeling, kayaking, and whatever other water sports they could come up with.

It was the off-season in Tahiti and they’d gotten a great deal on their ten-day trip. They’d start with four days on Moorea, one of the main islands, then they’d catch a plane to a remote atoll in the Tuamotu islands called Tikehau. Although they’d be staying in a luxury resort with an over-the-water cabana and its private deck and ladder down into the water, they could kayak to one of the many nearby motus – small parts of the reef covered in sand and dotted with coconut palm trees.

Janey had done the research and explained to George what an atoll was. George had heard the term and knew about the nuclear testing that was done in the area decades before, but he hadn’t realized that an atoll wasn’t just another name for an island. No. An atoll was what remained after the island sank into the sea.

When Janey explained it to him, George almost thought she was making up a story of a Polynesian Atlantis. He wouldn’t put it past her. Janey was constantly telling him fantastic stories with a perfectly straight face. Only about half were true and she took great pleasure in saying ‘got ya!’ when he fell for one of the false ones. He guessed she was working to help him sort fact from fiction – critical in his job. But she was definitely having a good time with these lessons.

Anyway, he’d learned that indeed, an atoll was the remnants of a former volcanic island. Over time, the volcano created an island through its eruptions. Coral reefs formed around the island and built up to the point where they rose above the surface of the water. Millennia of pounding waves turned the tops of the reefs into sand and passing coconuts landed and took root. Over time, the island was surrounded by these reefs. Between the reefs and the island was a lagoon. Usually, there were breaks in the reefs called passes (named by sailors whose boats were able to access the islands through the otherwise impenetrable reefs).

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