“Again with the sacrificial cults?” the editor shouted, tossing her draft in the trash. “We’re not a tabloid.”

“But people need to know-”

“That you have an axe to grind?” he interrupted. “Bring me a real story, or you’re fired!”

And that’s when she noticed the blood on his shoe.

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