THE REPORTER
Rachel Francis
The stranger was wearing trainers and shorts, even though there was still a frost on the ground outside. A dog followed him into the pub, so close to him that her shoulder brushed his leg. It was a blue merle, a handsome dog with prick ears. In the dim light of the bar, the stranger nodded to the people at the bar, then picked up a menu.
“That lad runs all across the moor,” muttered an older man wrapped in thick jackets to a younger man.
The younger one forked steak pie into his mouth.
“Seen him before,” he replied.
The story is set in a fictional market town on the edge of Dartmoor.
A stranger is employed as the new Reporter for the Mid Devon Post. Abel Richards is Aboriginal Australian and grew up in the Australian Bush, but when Abel is assigned to write about a Dartmoor hill farming woman who has disappeared, he uncovers a story that is close to his own heart.
R.Francis, author.
