Free and Clear
Interviewer: With what you've said will be your final term as mayor coming to a close, how do you feel? Do you think you've made a difference in Qualm's Hollow?
Mayor Brian Rodgers: Oh, without a doubt. Crime has been steadily declining. Qualm's Hollow is no longer viewed as an unsafe place to travel through. No longer are we looked upon as "that there town where all them children and folks are always dying." We are no longer the focal point for the ridicule of the uneducated. Our farmers are doing well, we're even experiencing some of our first tourist trade. Tourist trade that isn't composed of old quacks and occultists, looking for something that doesn't even exist.
Interviewer: From the very beginning you said those were the goals of your Free and Clear promise. How did people respond to that, when you first ran for mayor? Did they think you'd accomplish it?
Mayor Rodgers: Of course. The people have always supported me, and always known what a pleasant place Qualm's Hollow has been.
Interviewer: If you don't mind, I'd like to take this interview in a more controversial direction, at your discretion. What about the numerous influential figures the press named as your enemies? They're no secret. Stargazer, Therson, Pronflan... Did you ever feel threatened by them?
Mayor Rodgers: My political career is at an end boy, there's nothing I'm uncomfortable talking about. They themselves were nothing, it was the way the papers glorified them and made up such ridiculous conspiracies. Just proof that my people are too smart to believe in this quackery.
Interviewer: What about Lillian Bones?
Mayor Rodgers: I don't know what you're talking about. This interview is over.
-Interview of Brian Rodgers by Sean B. Lillion, 1955