Wilde Oats is an online literary magazine. It celebrates gay and bisexual fiction. It embraces the joys and agonies of life for gay and bisexual men, from hard gritty realism to wild flights of romantic fantasy.

Wilde Oats has gone through some big changes in recent months: we have moved to a new server and changed our appearance. The journal is published three times a year - in April, August and December. Between issues, you can find out what's happening, read snippets of new stories, see new artwork, and keep up to date by visiting us here.


Friday, August 26, 2011

Chevy Chase


In this story by James Silvestri, a young surburban outsider struggles to navigate his way through love, lust and the cruel realities of life.



I meet up with Billy at a motel 'cause it’s Sunday. Billy’s older than my grandpa and he looks it and I gotta admit sometimes he smells it too. I think he knows that 'cause he usually wears lots of cologne. He always makes sad comments that he’s so old and I always tell him that he’s wrong 'cause he’s real sensitive about his age. He’s real sensitive about lots of stuff. He sometimes gets all quiet and then his eyes look like my dad’s sometimes do when they’re watching my mom on the phone with Bonnie at QVC. Billy likes to warn me that the world’s a sad, stupid place and I act like he’s telling me something I don’t already know because it makes him happy when he’s teaching me stuff. He has a son and daughter and a wife that are always around him but they don’t get him 'cause he can’t be honest with them. And his whole life is a lie. I made up that last part, he never said that, but it’s true.

You can read this story here.

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

Issue 8 is now up

It's uploaded!  And ready to read.  Eight stories, an excerpt from Rick R Reed's novel Tricks, an interview with Rick, and much much more.

Wilde Oats is the premier gay-shaded e-zine around, with fiction, rants, interviews with gay-shaded authors, and book and film reviews.

Enjoy.

Sunday, August 7, 2011

Back Home by R J Scott

One of our editors, Stan Ridge, reviews this novel in the upcoming issue of Wilde Oats (up tomorrow -- we're just waiting on a couple of author and artist bios.)

Meanwhile, I think the guy in the cover of the book is startlingly beaut.

Friday, August 5, 2011

The Wolf

My story The Wolf has been lucky enough to acquire TWO illustrators.  Quel embarras de richesse!

Here's one of the illustrations, by Tricia Danby.


Uploading proceeding apace!!!

The Squires

I'm busy putting the final touches to the next issue of Wilde Oats -- hurray!

This illo is for Nan Hawthorne's tale The Squires, just to give you a foretaste of the pleasures which await you when the issue is up.