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Bottle Rocket
Meet Kate Winston, Shawn Harris, and the best, brightest, and most uniquely gifted personalities in contemporary lesfic, in the all-new novella, Bottle Rocket. (a short story). This short story is available as part of the book of short stories, Sidecar by author Ann McMan.
- GenresLesbian
Unknown Binding
First published June 1, 2012
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About the author
Ann McMan
34 books572 followersCollege at an indifferent liberal arts institution taught Ann McMan that understanding subject/verb agreement was not enough to secure her fame and fortune. After graduation, she got a job driving a young adult bookmobile—and spent her days piloting the great rig across the dusty back roads of rural North Carolina. Her duties included making certain that the mobile library always contained at least six copies of "Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret", visiting the county detention unit (it was a great way to catch up with her brothers), and showing public service films about safe sex to pre-teens at 4-H Clubs all across her part of “The New South.”
Soon, the allure of higher education coaxed Ann back to school. For the past three decades, Ann has worked at a succession of premier institutions, designing marketing and advancement materials that promote, promulgate, and extol the benefits of indifferent liberal arts education.
Somebody has to do it.
All this time, she continued to write. And when, at the ripe old age of thirty, she realized that she was not like other girls, the great world of lesbian literature opened its arms, and provided her with a safe haven in which to grow and learn about her new identity. She will forever be indebted to those literary pioneers who had the courage, the talent, and the temerity to gift us all with an art form of our own. Ann’s first and subsequent attempts at writing lesbian fiction have been heartfelt attempts to pay that great gift forward.
Ann McMan is the author of three novels, JERICHO, DUST, and AFTERMATH–and the story collection SIDECAR.
In 2011, Ann, along with her novels JERICHO and DUST and her short story “I Saw Xena Kissing Senticles” were elected to The Royal Academy of Bards Hall of Fame. In 2012, she was awarded the Alice B. Lavender Certificate.
BACKCAST, further adventures of the CLIT-Con 13 (that zany cast of authors from SIDECAR’s “Bottle Rocket”) will be released in 2013.
Soon, the allure of higher education coaxed Ann back to school. For the past three decades, Ann has worked at a succession of premier institutions, designing marketing and advancement materials that promote, promulgate, and extol the benefits of indifferent liberal arts education.
Somebody has to do it.
All this time, she continued to write. And when, at the ripe old age of thirty, she realized that she was not like other girls, the great world of lesbian literature opened its arms, and provided her with a safe haven in which to grow and learn about her new identity. She will forever be indebted to those literary pioneers who had the courage, the talent, and the temerity to gift us all with an art form of our own. Ann’s first and subsequent attempts at writing lesbian fiction have been heartfelt attempts to pay that great gift forward.
Ann McMan is the author of three novels, JERICHO, DUST, and AFTERMATH–and the story collection SIDECAR.
In 2011, Ann, along with her novels JERICHO and DUST and her short story “I Saw Xena Kissing Senticles” were elected to The Royal Academy of Bards Hall of Fame. In 2012, she was awarded the Alice B. Lavender Certificate.
BACKCAST, further adventures of the CLIT-Con 13 (that zany cast of authors from SIDECAR’s “Bottle Rocket”) will be released in 2013.
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November 28, 2012
this is one of the short stories within Ann McMan's anthology, Sidecar. I'd put it as one of the best of the short stories, it might be my favorite of the bunch, but they were all 5 star hilarious. You're best off just getting the whole lot. I just read them all again last night and had several LOL moments. This author excels at telling a funny story.
March 16, 2013
This was my first Ann McMan book, and I am ready to blow my entire paycheck on buying the rest of them. I laughed so hard while reading Bottle Rocket, I can't remember when anything (movie, book, conversation, etc) entertained me so well. Ann McMan has a true talent of writing comedy and I appreciated it while laughing at the restaurant, waiting for class to start, on the bus, and all those other places where people just ended up staring at me thinking I was a crazy laughing lady! This is the perfect story for any type of day you may be having- because it is going to put a smile on your face and a side stitch in your laughing muscles. It is one that you just can't help but laugh through.
June 2, 2013
Ann McMan writes the funniest books. I lost count of how many times I laughed out loud reading Bottle Rocket. Her description of the various nerds and social misfits hiding behind potted palms in the ballroom at (guffaw) CLIT-Com was priceless. Her dialogue is snappy and her imaginary (I hope) characters are all too believable.
I will take to my grave the slogan on the back of the biker chick's t-shirt.
If I have a negative it's that the epilogue was unnecessary....almost too much of a good thing.
Looking forward to seeing many of these great characters in her next book.
I will take to my grave the slogan on the back of the biker chick's t-shirt.
If I have a negative it's that the epilogue was unnecessary....almost too much of a good thing.
Looking forward to seeing many of these great characters in her next book.
June 16, 2017
Hilarious and totally ridiculous. Genuinely LOLed many times. I still am laughing just thinking about the treadmill.
September 4, 2013
Wicked!
August 11, 2014
On writers' lives is not my cup of coffee...Not so bad, so it's a 3.5 star
April 4, 2017
Worth the buy! Quirky and intelligent.
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