Or maybe Margaret Fuller’s Top 10 Reading List. After a moment he raised his eyes to hers and answered his own question. What angle have you contrived this time to justify an article about that woman? Giving Alexa no time to answer, Cabot put his head in his hands as though receiving the answer telepathically. He had no talent for acting so wasn’t entirely convinced he fooled Alexa, nevertheless he held no enthusiasm for another pitch about Fuller and his faced showed it. ![]() In confrontations like this, it was the tactic he employed to remind her he was the boss and she the employee. ![]() Studied indifference was his only bargaining chip. In truth, he was still intimidated by his star writer despite having developed an amicable working relationship with her. You’re pretty sure of yourself, aren’t you? Cabot dreaded the sparring that would ensue until Alexa made all her points but he felt he could not betray any interest in whatever she planned to propose until she ended her argument. You can tell how serious I am because you know how much I detest those coma-inducing budget hearings. Justin, give me five minutes to make my case and if I can’t convince you there’s a relevant story here, I’ll spend a month covering the legislature when it convenes. Drop this quixotic quest and write something our readership might actually enjoy. I have before me a flesh and blood, award-winning writer who is acting like one of those hopeless characters, as if her life depends on an article about an obscure Transcendentalist author. Cabot, familiar with Alexa’s determined negotiating tactics, was uncomfortable with the ankle breaking bit but remained undeterred in rejecting yet another pitch for an article about Fuller.īut your examples are all fictional characters, Alexa, written to be over the top fanatical. I’m not about to break your ankles because you keep turning down my ideas." Alexa smiled sweetly at her boss, Justin Cabot, but there was enough roguish insouciance in her eyes to imply that perhaps the idea had occurred to her. Just because I want to write about Margaret Fuller doesn’t put me in the same league with those doomed souls. "Romeo, Ahab, and that crazy woman from the Stephen King novel Misery – those people were obsessed.
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