Chapter 22: Sunshine Dane
Roughs
782 Opulent Avenue
10:47 A.M.
I failed to be surprised to learn that Sunshine Dane, the former bar back at the Flaming Flamingo, now worked as a bar keep at Roughs, another one of Peter Rotunda’s money-making properties.
I walked in the place and saw that it looked shabby-nice. The place woofed! The bear bar had black walls, brown leather seats, a dartboard, mechanical bull, and country music on the jukebox. Drink specials that evening were going to be a Rodeo Rum, a Bull Bomb with cheap whiskey, and a Dandy Daiquiri.
I saw Sunshine at the bar, washing beer mugs, and I realized that she was a he, out of drag. I posed no judgment about the young man and asked, “Sunshine Dane?”
He looked up from his work. A geisha’s face stared at me; something beautif
