Chapter 35: Crashing Down
August 20, 2014
The Octopus Martini: 6 Parts Gin, 2 Parts Dry Vermouth, 1 Smoked Baby Octopus, 1 Black Olive.
Before this all came crashing down around me, I got to know Tuck’s parents, but only through stories, their f*******: pages, and other forms of media. Joel and Miranda Martini had been married for the last twenty-eight years. Joel worked as a janitor and Miranda as a nurse at Westerly Hospital in downtown Cincinnati. They were a middle class couple with limited dreams. In 1994 they purchased a redbrick brownstone just outside the city limits. Tuck was just a baby at the time and could barely remember when they had first moved in.
Although Tuck’s father, Joel Henry Martini, worked at the same high school that Tuck attended, Tuck wasn’t very close to him
