Sample Short Love Story
It was very hard for Sam to keep from screaming at the unfairness of it all.
She had been working at the newspaper for years. She wasn't always the best writer, and she certainly could have been a bit more social with the rest of the office staff, but she was good at her job, and she had become invaluable to the editor. Derek had always valued her opinion for what it was, and he trusted her more than anyone else at the paper.
But that was before Christine.
Christine slammed into the newsroom like a Category 5 hurricane. She tore down everything Sam had worked so hard to build and left a trail of destruction in her wake. Within her first month, she'd managed to get four good reporters fired, and at least a few others were on the chopping block.
And Derek seemed to love her immediately.
It didn't matter to him that Sam had given the paper everything or that he used to trust her implicitly. When Christine winked, complimented him, and broke things off with her fiancé to “get to know him better,” all of that went out the window. It was like Caesar and Cleopatra all over again.
She demanded Sam's resignation two weeks later.
It was sheer luck that Christine wasn't in a position to influence hiring. No matter how much she complained about Sam's work, she couldn't get her way.
And then came the last straw: Derek promoted Christine to the job Sam had been promised, and that was it. A carefully crafted letter of resignation made its way to her direct supervisor's desk.
Truth be told, Sam still wasn’t sure whether it was the right decision.
