…bad day for a pump jockey; the start of a long fall… part 2; a prelude.
By Thomas E Krawford jr.

Tompkins was pushing him, and He, Our Young Friend, back in those blurry days of confusion and denial; family secrets piling on top of family regrets; did not like to be pushed…
Communication barriers, he thought to himself, our Custodian at one of a major midwestern university’s central…