Diane Chalmers likes to keep the temperature in her
house cold. Maybe that is because she spends so much time in front of the
powerful television lights on the 6 and 10pm newscasts. Waco, Texas is a step
up or down market wise in a television anchor career. For Diane Chalmers both
her career and her marriage seemed headed down and Private Investigator Morris
Ronald Boyette does not have any real answers for her.
She isn’t alone as he won’t have any easy answers
for his next client who has a very familiar problem. Some things just can’t be
fixed no matter what he does.
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Publishing this short story is a powerful read with a certain sad inevitability
to it. The sexism evidenced in the television industry where male anchors are
allowed to grow old on air while female anchors are not allowed the same luxury
in most cases is a strong theme throughout the work. So too is the fact that pain
confirmed though proof often can’t easily be fixed regardless of status or
position. Rich in details, the approximately three thousand word story (14
pages print) isn’t exactly a fun light read considering everything, but it is a
good one.
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supplied quite some time ago by the author in exchange for my objective review.
Kevin
R. Tipple ©2012
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4 comments:
I may have to pick this up. I love Bracken's "Moe Ron" stories.
I think this is the first one I have read. Don't hold me to that.
I really enjoy Michael Bracken's work.
All his stuff is good.
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