Entropy
The Lost Man.
10 Feb 2007
Mobile phone call: “......This is reporter Ben Edwards number 24665-B-12... patch me through to the editor please”
“Hello Ben please hold on.” replied the young woman on the other end.
“Sigh”
Well I'm at the party near lapis rock, cant believe after all these years I'm still stuck doing these stupid publicity stunts. I want to be reporting real stories, something with adventure and suspense, something tha.......
Editor “Hello Ben”
“Hello sir, I'm at the party, it is everything I expected it to be, just a bunch of loners looking for a date, yes that includes the politicians”
Editor “Ben, I get it OK, you don't like this job but someone has to do it and all the other reporters are away on assignments, and no it is not because I think your a bad reporter, just think of this as a break from your normal column.”
“OK, well ill get back to it I guess then ill call you in two days once the party is over, let you know what I got”
Click
While I'm here I might as well get some interviews done, the editor will tolerate a lot but if I have nothing by Monday I wont have a job to go back too.
12 Feb 2007
Mobile phone call: “......Ben Edwards 24665-B-12... for the editor please”
Editor “Hey Ben”
“Well I got three interviews, should be enough to write up something with, mainly gossip and drunken mumbo jumbo”
Editor “Good good, I guess everyone has left now so ill expect you back here tomorrow right?”
sounds of a vehicle in the distance
“You don't need to tell me twice, ill be come back wh.........hey get your hands off me.(muffled) Mmmmm mmaa mmmm mm”
Editor “Ben......Ben are you there...........Ben this isn't funny..........”
A crackle sound before the phone hangs up left with only silence.
Police report
Name: Ben Edwards
Age: 27
Marital status: Single
Last heard at 14:22 by Ralf Thomson during a mobile phone conversation, audio witness describes “a struggle” just before loss of contact, last reported position of subject 10 miles south of Brentwood canyon, local name of lapis rock.
Amendment: Under authority number 2775/BDD/001 force case closed.