The Seeker

Kelly McLain, a reporter for the San Diego Tribune, gets the assignment of going out to interview Rick Matson, a dog trainer for search and rescue and the DEA. Kelly is less than enthusiastic about this assignment, and tells her belabored editor, to no avail. But the seemingly uninteresting human interest story blossoms into front page news as she follows Rick out on a Search and Rescue mission.

Written by Blanche Wheeler
Published by AmorBooks

I looked at Gus, my editor, with as much cold disdain as I could. Trouble was, he was disdain-proof. Too many years of reporters looking at him with varying degrees of hate and contempt had thickened his skin to that of a yeti, “But Gus, why?”

“Because you don’t have anything better to work on at the moment,” he said plainly.

The real messed up part of this was, he was right. I had nothing to fire back at him. Nothing. It was horrible. So I was going out to talk to a man about rescue dogs and how they are trained and whatever the hell they did. And who cared? I mean it wasn’t a real story. The guy did his job. Fantastic. What was next, checkout boys? Guys doing their job were not news. If it were I would get to hang out at fire stations. Now that was something to get into. All those beefed up hero types walking around? A girl could seriously get into a man doing his job in that…