Not the 6 o’clock News
on June 11, 2014
Aimee walked in the door after work. The house was dark and quiet. Good, she’d beaten Ben home. A few minutes of ‘me’ time before he gets in. She flicked on the TV in the bedroom to catch the news as she changed out of her office garb. Accident in the suburbs, building site explosion and fire, two dead. A fleeting sadness crossed her mind for the dead and their families, as it did every time she saw something similar. And then she caught the words “Mason Holdings”. Ben’s company. On the screen she could see the building and rubble. The reporter was talking about an infringement of safety conditions. Lucky more people hadn’t been killed. Ben wouldn’t have been on site she told herself as she felt the panic rising. He’s the construction manager. He doesn’t actually do anything dangerous. Doesn’t actually get his […]