<div align="center"><em>From Alice's house to downtown office of the Gazette</em></div><br/>Alice woke up in a cold sweat. Her hand reached out to the stuffed rabbit that shared the bed with her. It seemed to look at her accusingly with its buttoned eyes as if to ask. " What do you have to be upset about?" She scooped it up and held the stuffed animal against her chest for a few seconds. It had been her sons. She had gave it to him on his second Easter, bought it at Goodwill a hand me down stuffed animal for 50 cents. At the time it was all the Easter bunny could afford and she had been half ashamed to get it for him. Now it was all she had. Everything else had been sold or given away before she moved to Cape Merrin, at the advise of her councilor. It was supposed to help her move on, but for some reason she couldn't make herself let go of the stupid rabbit.<br/><br/>She dropped the rabbit on the bed, and stood up with a stretch. She Went to the bath room, took a cold shower, and slid on a pair of jeans and a White shirt. She picked up the keys to a small yellow v.w and headed out the door. In the V.W she scanned the radio for anything decent, but came up with nothing so she turned it off and drove in silence to the office of the newspaper.<br/><br/>When she got to her office she went straight to her desk, and went to work. her articles were not front page news. She wrote the junk that the other reporters didn't want, Traffic violations, the fluff pieces, such as There's a blood drive at the library next week, or a new leash law for the dogs that go to the park. Today she was going to write a piece on a Miss Porter who was sewing a quilt to help her sister through cancer.She didn't mind. As the newest reporter she had to work her way up. Yet she didn't really care if she ever made head reporter. She didn't think she could handle all the death, and scandal and murder anymore.<br/>