Prompt: 059. entertainment reporter
1. She’d dreamed of delivering the hard-hitting news the country had been missing for so long. Instead she’d been relegated to being an entertainment reporter, constantly chasing after celebrities.
A. She’d dreamed of delivering the hard-hitting news the country had been missing for so long. Instead she’d been relegated to being an entertainment reporter, constantly chasing after celebrities.
Part of her wanted to accuse her bosses of sexism. That they’d only assigned her such an insulting role because she was a woman. But the rest of her worried that the station had only hired her because she was somewhat pretty, and if she complained they would confirm that she didn’t really have the talent to be a reporter.
2. It was hard to believe he’d been an entertainment reporter once. He swung his ax like he’d been killing zombies his whole life.
A. It was hard to believe he’d been an entertainment reporter once. He swung his ax like he’d been killing zombies his whole life. There was steely determination in his blue-gray eyes and his lips were drawn back from his teeth in a focused snarl.
“Die! Die! Die!” he grunted as he hacked at the zombies closing around him. More and more were filling the street, attracted in that sixth sensed way that so quickly turned a single zombie into a horde.
3. There was near universal disbelief when he finally decided to break his silence, but only to her. She was an entertainment reporter for goodness sake, not a real journalist.
A. There was near universal disbelief when he finally decided to break his silence, but only to her. She was an entertainment reporter for goodness sake, not a real journalist. Yet she was the one with the interview, so she was handed a list of questions to ask and was sent to beard the beast in his den.
No one outside of his small circle had spoken to the reclusive billionaire in years. He was occasionally spotted in public, but his bodyguards kept the curious at a far distance. He was known as a pair of dark sunglasses and a blank expression climbing into limousines. It had even become a meme.
She was going to meet the man himself.
