Any Summer Sunday at Nacho Mama's Patio Cafe: Drag, Songs, Friends, Laughs, Lies, Danger & Redemption

by Steve Schatz

Overview

Every Sunday evening, TiaRa del Fuego's Parade of Gowns drag show presents the best entertainment in our little, Indiana college town in Hoosier Daddy, the only gay bar around.

Between sets, we gathered for drinks and nachos at Nacho Mama's Patio Cafe. Trading lies, laughs, adventures, celebrations and sorrows, our merry band relished the life of the small town gay, safe in the bosom of long-time friends.

Then TiaRa announced she had found "true" love - yet again and was leaving to be with her latest amour. Disaster loomed. How far should you go to save a friend from her own desires? Over the course of the evening, the Entrepreneur, the Lush, the Boys, the Spy, the Southern Belle, the Fixer and the Storyteller struggled to help, to rescue and to allow, because that is what friends do for friends.

While Stonewall brought pride and visibility to gays, outside the cities, the community was, and often is, quiet outside of bar life. Inside, however, we can let our hair down and put our pumps on - a center of gay culture and friendship. Remember, Stonewall was a gay bar - tits full of drag queens. Set in 2007, A.S.S. celebrates and explores that milieu.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781953029089
Publisher:	Anysummersundaycom LLC
Publication date:	06/21/2019
Series:	Nacho Mama Patio Cafe Novels , #1
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.66(d)

About the Author

Steve Schatz is having a wonderful adventure. Raised in New Mexico, his primary interests were classical music and theater. He holds degrees in Government, Instructional Design and a PhD in Education. He wrote, directed and starred in a public access children's educational television program that ran for 5 years in San Francisco, New York and Los Angeles. He has taught comedy traffic school, run workshops on writing across the curriculum with educators throughout the country and has been on the faculties of University of Hartford and University of Massachusetts. His writing has appeared in numerous scholarly journals, but his love has always been fiction. His stories and poems have appeared in national and regional magazines. Two of his novels have been published by Absolute Love Publishing. His stories convey a message of the power of friendship and the inner strength that each person has to change the world through intentional creative action. A sense of humor and fun courses through all his work. He spends his time writing and enjoying this amazing world. He lives in the college town of Bloomington, Indiana with his very patient husband of many years and two cats who allow him to pet them if he is good.

Editorial Reviews

My highest praise for a book- I could not put it down but I wanted to do so because I did not want the book to end- especially without a sequel to curb my wish for more. The characters were fascinating with the sort of witty dialogue I love from the older 1940's movies- Nick and Nora reincarnated in some mid west anomaly of a town. Sure hope this is made into a movie.

I just finished reading this book and I think I'll read it again soon. It was fun and tawdry and the way the author will take a familiar expression and twist it just a little so you're surprised by where it went reminded me of Steve Aylett, another author who makes every word count. One of the chapters is a tale of a secret cabal which should exist, and probably doesn't, but just the possibility that it might will lift my spirits for a long time.

I love this book. It's funny, delightful, well-written, a great story, insightful, and an all around laugh out loud great read.

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