Coffee. In this business you need lots of it because it keeps you going when you are burning the candle at both ends, which is just about all the time and you gotta have a callused heart and an iron soul, because if you don't have these sometimes the stories you write for a small town newspaper like The Twin Buffs Harbour Mirror will shred you like so much unwanted documents and spit you out like a mouth full of bad meat.
When I enlarged the new photo, I saw a new shadow and with a little pix enhancing recognized something that made my blood run cold. Not only was Alasyn Murton dead, it was no accident. I started getting my headline story ready for January tenth, A Murder In Twin Bluffs Harbour.
