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Self Published
January 2015
On Sale: January 14, 2015
Featuring: Clara May; Frieda
ISBN: 0692350640
EAN: 9780692350645
Kindle: B00S7R7I12
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In the small Midwestern town of Dewers, amidst the turmoil
of the 1960s, the casual conversations of five men lead to
public sex in the courthouse restroom. Their arrest for
public indecency takes the town on a journey through good
and evil that will alter it, as well as the five men and
their families. Through it all the town confirms its
perseverance of community and ability to survive. Each man tells his version of the story that starts at
Squeaky's bar with a planned weekend fishing trip. On that
weekend the five men discover a shared sexual interest in
each other. This newfound release triggers a need for more,
leading to anonymous sex in the courthouse restroom. Their
private encounters become public knowledge when the sheriff,
acting on a tip, observes the behavior. All are arrested and
accused of public indecency, a charge that could land them
in jail or a psychiatric hospital. It will lead the town out
of its ordinary world and through a land of forbidden,
deviant sexual behavior. The men reveal complex, unknown,
and differing motivations for their behavior. It is not
erotic but gives insight into the behavior's erotic appeal. On the day of the men's hearing, Clara May, a retired
English teacher, and Frieda, a retired principal's
assistant, guide us through the thoughts and actions of the
men and their families as they await the outcome. Bob, a law professor, has experimented sexually with other
men. Sexual tension in his marriage leads both him and his
wife to seek gratification elsewhere. Gary is a transplant
from Chicago. He knows he is attracted to men. As an
outsider, Gary is mistrusted by the town and blamed for the
affair. Thomas, a farmer, experimented sexually in the Navy.
His continued desires, deeply held religious beliefs, and
controlling parents threaten him and his marriage. He turns
to alcohol. James, a car dealer, satisfies his identity
crisis with a red sports car and sexual release at
out-of-town meetings. His wife suspects but she does not act
until her husband's arrest. Danny's fundamentalist father
forces him to live with his grandfather because of his
interest in male muscle magazines. Two questions are on all
their minds: Who am I? Is anyone out there like me? After the hearing the men meet at Washington Street Bar, a
place where anonymity is respected.Knowing there will be a
plea deal and no jail, the men discuss tomorrow's
uncertainty. Returning home from the bar, each man confronts
the day's events with their families.
Readers learn, through Clara May and Frieda, that the town
questions if it will maintain its natural order of life or
enter the stream of a changing world. One thing is
certain:Pastor Jones will not cross that threshold of change
and tells the town to shun the men and their evil ways. The
ordeal brings the men, their families, and Dewers an armor
of truth where acceptance can find a home. Not even Pastor
Jones's sword of words will penetrate it. No one remains
unchanged. The town finds it has the power to heal, to
change, thanks to the power of forgiveness.
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