Truckin' to Please

Is their budding relationship for real or just wishful thinking?Young Tim Dawson produces dance music and is deep into the bar scene. The older and quieter Castor can't be bothered; he's made his solitary life watching lane markers roll underneath him from the cab of his truck. When he does finally fall in love, it's with his brother-in-law. Tim desperately tries to find security with Castor. He befriends the older man's sister Sonia while Castor sets out to capture her handsome husband Ricky. Set against a backdrop of St. Louis in the early 1990s, Rabushka's novel is a time capsule of a bygone gay world ... and a timeless story of lost love and broken hearts.Jerry Rabushka is a playwright, composer, and novelist. For many years he wrote and produced original plays and musicals through his theater company Ragged Blade Productions. His novel Star Bryan was published by Rebel Satori in 2012. He has produced several albums of original music, and for several years has been performing music of the ragtime era.Due to his contribution to St. Louis LGBT history, much of Rabushka's fiction, playwriting and music has been archived by the State Historical Society of Missouri, with selected pieces archived at the Missouri Historical Society. He lives with his partner Isaac Cherry in St. Louis.