Anel Viz's Kaleidoscope

Anel Viz, a frequent contributor to Wilde Oats,  has just had another book published.  This time it's a collection of short stories called Kaleidoscope.  I haven't read it myself, but here's the publisher's blurb:

In these seven stories, the author explores people’s shifting views of each other, of the images they project, and of themselves.  Individuals fragment, the pieces fall into ever-changing patterns like bright confetti in the base of a kaleidoscope, and our ideas about sexuality color what we see.

Proteus - Dr. Krone puzzles over the real persona of a student whose dress, body language and opinions change from one class to the next.

Roomies - Each of three men who share a condo plays to a different gay stereotype, masking the individual personalities that lie beneath the façade.

Photographic Memories - A witness at a trial for a gay killing harbors some doubts that the accused is the man he saw leave with the victim.

Facing the Music - Two lovers are forced by their church to enter a reconditioning program to cure their homosexuality.

Kevvy - A popular high school student befriends a gay classmate.

Polygon - A man’s fantasies about watching his wife have sex with a woman lead to suspicions about her sexual orientation and that of his best friend.

Since the Reunion - “Spouses and significant others welcome.” How many will attend? How have they changed over the past 25 years?

Anel Viz's Wilde Oats home page can be accessed here, and we also have reviews of his novels too:

The House in Birdgate Alley
City of Lovely Brothers
P'tit Cadeau
The Memoirs of Colonel Gérard Vreilhac

You can read Anel's blog here.

 

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.

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.

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.

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.

Issue 8

Stories, reviews and rants!  As usual, enough to keep you entertained and happy for hours.  I'm bust converting texts to HTML and will sstart uploading them in a couple of days.  There's always more to do than I thought, and it always takes longer.

We'll keep you posted.