Home game: Visiting hours

[caile]

I frown at the scrawled note. 146 Bayville Road, 4 p.m. today, it reads, and then something that looks like... corny. Corny? Is that an assessment of my headline writing skills? Damn my editor's cryptic notes anyway. Why can't we talk about assignments on the phone like normal reporters? But I know it's because we're North America's only newspaper

Comments

[whipchick]

I love the surreality of this journey, and how inevitable it seems even though every step is a surprise.

And this -
because I think it's more important for the bereaved to know its going to happen than for people who aren't bereaved to know that it has happened.

Yes. So much yes.

[alycewilson]

This is my favorite of yours from this batch. Having worked at a small-town newspaper, I identified with a lot of this. The cryptic notes are very funny. I didn't have to deal with that, but I didn't have a cell phone at the time, which made for some interesting moments like the time I got stuck on an icy road after being sent to cover an accident.