Just Like a Butterfly

It's the year 2004 A.D.

How the hitchhiker vampire, Andrew, got snared by a cheeky wanna-be drag queen, Juandre, told from Juandre's point of view. At twenty-two, my existence was crusty. It was a Friday afternoon when I was racing like the Red Queen down the interstate from New York to Lexington, Kentucky, feeling like I would never reach my destination and, simultaneously, reluctant to start my life as a straight-married man and a father-to-be.

When I crossed the bridge at the Ohio River,...