Larry Plumb Is Still Here

It’s 3:41 a.m. and fifty-six-year-old Larry Plumb isn’t turning over and fluffing his pillow or walking with heavy steps to the bathroom to relieve himself. Larry Plumb is awake—attacking a new day.

Larry has been an effective four-term Highway Commissioner and Senior Utility Specialist in his suburban Western New York town. Before work today, he’ll care for his family’s pets, complete an exercise routine, decipher some poetry, and work on his fledgling novel—accomplishing more before 7 a.m. than most do in an entire day.

Yet, for all his competence, the universe seems to be working overtime to beat Larry down and make him irrelevant. His wife and children accuse him of being toxic, controlling, and out of touch. The work crews he oversees are becoming increasingly confrontational. And the town residents he has served with distinction for thirty-seven years now harangue and denounce him.

With challenges coming hard and fast from all sides, he must decide whether to quietly withdraw from life or prove once more he is a man of gravity, a man of consequence, and make the world notice that Larry Plumb is still here and is ready for everything.