Mickey Sanders Becomes Real

As I wrote a character profile for my bartender with the baseball cap, I learned his dark secret that haunts him.

He was raised in a southern Baptist home where his truck driver father and housewife mother taught him that homosexuality was a sin and Satan-driven. But Mickey ever since he could remember always dreamed about men and never felt anything for the girls who flitted in and out of his life. He has never told a soul nor has he acted on any of his urges.

He hates his parents and he hates his life. And so he keeps the baseball cap in place. He succeeds as a bartender because he listens. He fails as a friend because he never responds.

Mickey will do something dark most likely to himself in this novel.