Latin Lovers (Stand Alone Short Story from Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before?)

By Erasmo Guerra

What crazy, stupid things have you done in your search for love? Novelist and journalist Erasmo Guerra chronicles his own romantic misadventures, from his small town in South Texas to the revolving door that is the New York City gay dating scene. Told with humor and unapologetic honesty, the personal stories in "Haven't I Seen You Somewhere Before?: And Other Stupid Things I've Said in My Search for Love and Sex," which have been previously published in The New York Times, Gay City News, and aired on NPR’s Latino USA, are sure to resonate with anyone who has ever stumbled and gotten lost on the sometimes long, twisted road to romantic bliss.

Please note: this is a stand alone short story excerpted from the nonfiction collection HAVEN'T I SEEN YOU SOMEWHERE BEFORE?.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Erasmo Guerra
• Release date: Nov 8, 2015

Erasmo Guerra

Erasmo Guerra is a writer and journalist. His personal essays have appeared in The New York Times, Texas Monthly, The Texas Observer and aired on NPR's Latino USA. His debut novel Between Dances received the Lambda Literary Award. Erasmo has been a regular contributor to the New York Daily News, AARP magazine and other publications. He has received writing fellowships from the Vermont Studio Center, the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. He is a member of the Macondo Writers' Workshop. Erasmo was born on the Texas-Mexico border and now lives in the San Francisco Bay Area. He loves strong coffee and hearing other people's crazy-family stories.

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LATIN LOVERS

a stand-alone story from

HAVEN’T I SEEN YOU

SOMEWHERE BEFORE?

And Other Stupid Things I’ve Said

In My Search for Love and Sex

ERASMO GUERRA

Copyright © 2011 Erasmo Guerra

All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form.

A number of these stories have been previously published. Public News appeared in Men Seeking Men. Latin Lovers served as the introduction to Latin Lovers: True Stories of Latin Men in Love. La Plaça Reial appeared in Gay Travels: A Literary Companion. A Drop of Blood ran in The New York Times. Jotonovela was published in The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity. The following sketches appeared in Gay City News: Pillow Balk,