Wilde Stories 2014
ed. by Steve Berman
Oscar Wilde said: "I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability." Thankfully, the authors featured in Wilde Stories 2014 possess the ability to create men on the page that love and risk and suffer and mourn, deeds that deserve telling despite the frailties of fictional flesh. Once more editor Steve Berman has collected a variety of stories that range from the fantastical to the eerie to surreal-yet all possess the spark of imagination that is what brings storytelling the closest to a divine act of wonder an individual can perform.
Table of Contents:
"Grindr" by Clayton Littlewood
"The Ghosts of Emerhad" by Nghi Vo
"How to Dress an American Table" by J.E. Robinson
"Caress" by Eli Easton
"57 Reasons for the Slate Quarry Suicides" by Sam J. Miller
"Happy Birthday, Numbskull" by Robert Smith
"Right There in Kansas City" by Casey Hannan
"The Water That Falls on You from Nowhere" by John Chu
"Seven Lovers and the Sea" by Damon Shaw
"In the Brokenness of Summertime" by R.W. Clinger
"Lacuna" by Matthew Cheney
"Superbass" by Kai Ashante Wilson
"Midnight at the Feet of the Caryatides" by Cory Skerry
"The Revenge of Oscar Wilde" by Sean Eads
Steve Berman owns a great many books, a great many of which are gay-themed and a great many of those are eerie and fantastical. Well, the stories, not so much the books themselves, but he does possess a book reported to turn any flower pressed between its pages into a cordial (he's never dared try because he fears getting the book wet) and a scandalous memoir penned by Didier de Grandin, the bastard gay son of Seabury Quinn's famous occult detective.
Paperback, 246 pages