Dashiel Waitflaker: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Opera

By AmandaLyn Donogal

Settled in Mexico, their lottery winnings spent, Bambi and Dash are slinging beer at the Pink Pagoda Burrito Bar and Beer Haus to the usual crowd of banditos and drug dealers. When Bambi's biological clock gets the best of her, she puts the moves on a new gringo and takes him upstairs for some chaka chaka. After many shots of tequila, she wakes up to find her almost-lover, an undercover drug cop, dead in the bed, and a gun-toting dealer is there to make sure Bambi dies as well. Dash saves the day, the dealer is shot and the two take off on another adventure, starting with a short ride in a Thing, detouring through a convent, lying about Dash's upcoming opera performance, rubbing elbows in a downtown Puerto Vallarta gay disco, and crashing a funeral, all while Bambi is convinced she is now with child. When they find a bag full of money under the dock, they are sure they have hit pay dirt, but need a way to escape the city, the opes, the nuns and the drug dealers who are all looking for revenge. A rusted trawler awaits them, so with Adolf, Jeb, and Bambi's newest pet Pepe the pink lizard, they sneak on board and take off to see, bound for the sweet life in Hawaii.

• Language: English
• Publisher: M2K Publishing
• Release date: May 4, 2011
• ISBN: 9780986829154

AmandaLyn Donogal

In total contrast to her alter-ego, AmandaLyn faces life with at best an irreverent gusto. Canadian born, she would much rather be living in warmer climates where handsome men wear fewer clothes. She admits to motherhood, however it is highly unlikely her children would admit to their relationship to her.

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