Tom Adamson | The Sun Magazine

Tom Adamson

Tom Adamson has self-published three books of poetry. He and his wife, Diane, live in Lincoln, Nebraska.

— From March 1994
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Idle Speed

A Prison Journal

I became a crook, endorsing checks made out to the stock brokerage I worked for, putting the funds in my checking account, trading heavily in stock options — always telling myself everyone would be paid off handsomely, and no one would ever know.

March 1994
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