Terminal Wake: Stories of a boy 1979- 1991
This book is a funeral for a time, place, family and one boy's childhood. Not all funerals are sad, some are celebrations. Terminal Wake is a fictional collection of twenty-three stories inspired from actual events from a boyhood in the rural American South between the end of the disco laden seventies to the beginning of the nineties. These are stories written with compassion and humor about love, betrayals, abuse, tragedies and spirits that go bump in the night.

They are written from the perspective of a boy, a different kind of boy that was considered gifted and he was gay in a place and era that was not always as accepting. The primary setting is Paulding County, Georgia on the outskirts of Atlanta before the sprawl captured it like kudzu. It was just as unique as the boy, filled with eccentric, outspoken, strange and sometimes dangerous characters in the rolling hills and forests between Pumpkinvine Creek and the red dirt roads. The dysfunctional family at the center of it may or may not resemble yours.

These are new stories not contained in my novel, Dweller On The Boundary. Many of the same characters from that book inhabit this one too with just as much high strangeness.
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Terminal Wake: Stories of a boy 1979- 1991
This book is a funeral for a time, place, family and one boy's childhood. Not all funerals are sad, some are celebrations. Terminal Wake is a fictional collection of twenty-three stories inspired from actual events from a boyhood in the rural American South between the end of the disco laden seventies to the beginning of the nineties. These are stories written with compassion and humor about love, betrayals, abuse, tragedies and spirits that go bump in the night.

They are written from the perspective of a boy, a different kind of boy that was considered gifted and he was gay in a place and era that was not always as accepting. The primary setting is Paulding County, Georgia on the outskirts of Atlanta before the sprawl captured it like kudzu. It was just as unique as the boy, filled with eccentric, outspoken, strange and sometimes dangerous characters in the rolling hills and forests between Pumpkinvine Creek and the red dirt roads. The dysfunctional family at the center of it may or may not resemble yours.

These are new stories not contained in my novel, Dweller On The Boundary. Many of the same characters from that book inhabit this one too with just as much high strangeness.
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Terminal Wake: Stories of a boy 1979- 1991

Terminal Wake: Stories of a boy 1979- 1991

by Chris Vise
Terminal Wake: Stories of a boy 1979- 1991

Terminal Wake: Stories of a boy 1979- 1991

by Chris Vise

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This book is a funeral for a time, place, family and one boy's childhood. Not all funerals are sad, some are celebrations. Terminal Wake is a fictional collection of twenty-three stories inspired from actual events from a boyhood in the rural American South between the end of the disco laden seventies to the beginning of the nineties. These are stories written with compassion and humor about love, betrayals, abuse, tragedies and spirits that go bump in the night.

They are written from the perspective of a boy, a different kind of boy that was considered gifted and he was gay in a place and era that was not always as accepting. The primary setting is Paulding County, Georgia on the outskirts of Atlanta before the sprawl captured it like kudzu. It was just as unique as the boy, filled with eccentric, outspoken, strange and sometimes dangerous characters in the rolling hills and forests between Pumpkinvine Creek and the red dirt roads. The dysfunctional family at the center of it may or may not resemble yours.

These are new stories not contained in my novel, Dweller On The Boundary. Many of the same characters from that book inhabit this one too with just as much high strangeness.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940185842546
Publisher: Chris M. Vise
Publication date: 04/01/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

I am a Generation X gay writer. You cannot be much more outside the mainstream of popular writing than that in the 2020s. After years of living in the city of Atlanta, I have moved to a house on a hill just over a river somewhere between Athens, Georgia and Atlanta. I can listen to an owl at night, see the stars again and there is even a hawk that drops by to sit on my back fence in hopes of catching one of my squirrels. The country boy in my heart is again satisfied and if I need to answer the call of a city that sometimes haunts me like an aching joint then I can drive to Atlanta, though I kind of prefer Athens these days.

I was born on a hill in New Hope, Georgia and left in the 1990s to live on Ponce de Leon Avenue in an old factory in Atlanta. Once I had my fill, I moved to an 1800s Victorian mansion in Louisville, Old Louisville to be more precise. I had no plans of returning to Georgia, but circumstances called me back. I returned to Atlanta and as I once told a friend, I was afraid that if I did move back to Atlanta that it would snare me and I never would leave. It held me until 2021 and now I'm somewhere over a river, through some woods and atop a hill.

My hobbies are hiking, reading, photography, chess, gardening and travel. I am an avid music listener and enjoy many genres from rock to classical and jazz. My favorite rock band is R.E.M. and my favorite classical composer is Erik Satie.

I spent a significant part of my adult life in radio and television broadcasting. I worked locally and at the network level. I appeared on radio stations from New York to LA. I am no longer behind a microphone and at times I do miss it. Someone once said to me that radio was a disease that gets in your blood and it never leaves you, I agree.

I have a serious addiction to coffee and like to sample the local coffee shops when I travel. Old cemeteries are also places I like to wander through. I am happy in the middle of the wilderness, a beach or in a city center - just allow me some quiet time to relax.
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