Balloon Payment

I am in one of those situations editors don't like, deadline coming up and story still on the way.
 
I know the title of the story, "Balloon Payment"; but the word comes down from on High, hold the presses.
 
I had the front page laid out and the type set, "Thank God" the headline read, and there followed I.C. News' variation of the troops-and-the-homeless-eating-turkey story the media weasels haul out from mothballs every Thanksgiving Day...but I'm told some news is coming that will explode in America's mouth.