Theme # 99: Newspaper


This – this would be the scoop of her life! Betty Braithwaite waggled her eyebrows as, the day’s newspaper in one hand, she sat down at her desk. It bore two overflowing ashtrays, one lamp and several piles of paperwork – the first a direct result of the pressure of the last. But she was not under pressure, today – sure, this story put someone she believed to be good in a miserable light but, as long as it brought her a satchel or two of money, who was she to care?

A reporter's life never had been a bed of roses.