Sidecar by Ann McMan

Author:Ann McMan [McMan, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Bedazzled Ink Publishing Company
Published: 2012-06-06T14:00:00+00:00

Chapter Six

“I DON’T AGREE with that at all.”

Kate was sopping up the last of the mustard with a soggy French fry.

“Of course you don’t,” Shawn said. “If you ever agreed with me about anything, you’d have to enter a witness relocation program.”

“That’s not true,” Kate said. She held up her wine glass. “What about this?”

“I don’t think this counts.”

“Why not?”

“Oh come on. Who wouldn’t like a really fine Shiraz?”

“You saw the Gyno Galaxy series, right?”

Shawn sighed. “You know I did.”

“Oh, that’s right. You did go down on it . . . in a manner of speaking.”

“Very funny.”

“Your gymnastic feats aside, V. Jay-Jay Singh has been known to open beer bottles with her . . . well . . .”

Shawn was intrigued. “With her what?”

“Use your imagination.”

Shawn thought about that for few moments. “No way!”

“Way.”

“Nuh uh.”

“Uh huh.”

“I don’t believe you.”

“I don’t really care.”

Shawn looked down in the general vicinity of her own . . . opener and shuddered. “That’s not even possible.”

Kate shrugged.

“Is it?”

Kate shrugged again.

“And they think we’d be a better draw for the opening session than that?”

“Shawn, I really don’t think they thought about having V. Jay-Jay demonstrate this particular gift.”

“Too bad.” Shawn sighed. “I think it would’ve attracted truckers from ten states.”

“Trust me. Anything named CLIT-Con would attract truckers.”

“Yeah, but they’d all think it was something that required penicillin.”

“They certainly could’ve sold a shitload of koozies.”

Shawn snagged another French fry from Kate’s plate. “Did you eat all the mustard?”

“Beggars can’t be choosers.”

“What’s that supposed to mean?”

“Well, you did eat all of your fries and half of mine.”

“Yeah? Well you ate all of your burger and half of mine.”

“Did not.”

“Did, too.”

“I only ate your bacon. It’s not the same thing.”

“It is when it’s sitting on top of a bacon cheeseburger.”

Kate sighed. “Eating the bacon hardly qualifies as eating half of the sandwich.”

“Does, too.”

“Does not.”

“Does, too!”

“See?” Kate rolled her eyes. “This is exactly what I meant when I pointed out your fondness for excessive statement.”

“Gimme a break, Winston. One thing has nothing to do with the other.”

Shawn shifted her weight. They were sitting side by side on Kate’s big bed with all the food spread out across the space between them. Kate’s sore ankle was propped up on a stack of extra pillows. Shawn hadn’t intended to stay in Kate’s room to eat, but when the food arrived, Kate told her it was ridiculous to schlep it halfway across the hotel again, and that she should stay and eat her portion while it was still semi-hot.

Shawn could never say no to any woman who correctly used the word schlep.

Or to any woman who put mustard on her French fries.

They’d been trying to find safe topics to discuss, and had drifted into a conversation about trends in lesbian fiction. Shawn was surprised to discover that Kate actually had a balanced and informed perspective about most aspects of the genre. Plus she seemed to be on a first-name basis with all of the leading authors and publishers. It soon became clear that,

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