Welcome and Happy Easter! I scoured my books for eight sentences having to do with Easter and came up with a scene from The P-Town Queen. In it, Marco has just arrived in Provincetown Ma, where he plans to hide out from the hit man who is after him by pretending to be gay in a town known for it's gay community. As it happens, he arrives on Easter Sunday.
By the time the bus rolled into P-town, I had myself convinced that it would all work out. 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 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 walked the length of Commercial Street. Most of the shops were 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.
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