Sunday, March 31, 2013

#8Sunday: Happy Easter


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Happy Easter everyone! In honor of the holiday, I thought I'd take a break from Anton and Lenora and give a snippet having to do with Easter.

These eight come from "The P-Town Queen", a romantic comedy set in Provincetown, Massachusetts.  Marco, the hero, has just been dropped off in the heart of town by the Teaneck Gay Men's Choir. He's running from the mob and has decided that the best way to hide is by pretending to be gay.

After the bus dropped us off and Evan got the boys to sing “So Long,
Farewell,” as we went our separate ways, I had to stop myself from flagging
down another bus and begging the driver to take me back to Newark.

I walked the length of Commercial Street. Most of the shops were
still closed and the only noise came from the pier where the boats were going
in and out and off into distance. Church bells started to ring, and I thought
about my Nona and how all those years she’d drag me off to Mass every
week and how on Easter she’d always hide a couple of those plastic Easter
eggs with pennies in them. I was a sucker for those eggs. I don’t think she
would’ve liked it to see me walking down the street homeless, so I made her
a promise that I’d find a job. And that, after I got done with being gay, I’d
settle down with a nice girl.

I remembered Evan’s words about my not seeming gay, so every
time I saw two men together I watched real careful so I could imitate.

Happy Spring! 
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16 comments:

  1. Lots going on in this snippet. Caught my interest

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  2. Got a chuckle out of "after I got done with being gay". Interesting story!

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    1. Thanks Debbie. Poor Marco really doesn't know what he's gotten himself into!

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  3. At least he has some good memories in his interesting set of predicaments. Terrific snippet!

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    1. Thanks Veronica. He has gotten himself into an interesting predicament!

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  4. LOL This sounds like a fun read. Great snippet!

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    1. Thanks Elyzabeth. It was a lot of fun to write.

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  5. Interesting reversal of "being in the closet."

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    1. Marco finds it isn't so easy to pretend to be gay.

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  6. Interesting way of hiding. Hope he changed a bit more than his preferences. Like his name, his hair color, his eyes, etc. This sounds like it's going to be hilarious!

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    1. Well, he doesn't change his looks, but he does change his name to Parker Bench. Which he uses because he first sees the heroine, Nikki, while he's sitting on a park bench.

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  7. Liked the "after I got done being gay" line... made me laugh. Thanks for sharing.

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  8. I too loved the after I got done being gay line. Nice excerpt.

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