Episode #8: A Revelation and a Scream

While Mrs. Ozanski had been attempting to pry Chris' day out of him (she often complained that trying to get a word out her boys was like pulling teeth), contrary to her fears, no intruder had 'assaulted' her son. In fact, Tom's window had remained tightly sealed. Had some sort of thief been possessed with the idea of intruding upon Tom's highly coveted space, it was unlikely that it would have resulted in something as highly emotive as a scream, anyhow. There most likely would have been the confident spray of Tom's can of mace which he, with his anthropological hyper- awareness of the extraordinary violence peculiar to American culture, kept safely clipped to his blue jeans' belt loop, followed by a slight scuffle and a calm telephone call to the police. No, it would take more than an intruder to squeeze a scream out of Tom; his brother had been correct. So what did cause the scream and thud that had sent Mrs. Ozanski into such a tizzy? Tom, upon narrowing and modifying his google search several more times, had been led to a link which was the website for his very own job site- Jefferson And Co. Online Lobbying Inc. After staring at the link with shock, everything had started to fall into place. This, combined with another of Tom's moments of lucidness, had forced a shrill victory scream out of his throat, a scream that had seemed to originate in some primal depth of his being, a trans- cultural center of his humanness which ensured his survival.