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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Chris M. Vise was born and raised in New Hope, Georgia. He has lived in Louisville, Kentucky and Atlanta since leaving the hill of his childhood, though it never left his heart. He currently lives in Georgia with his partner. Nature remains a large influence in his life whether it is a beach, a desert or a trail through the deep woods. Chess, photography and gardening are hobbies he enjoys to this day. Chris has appeared on radio stations from New York to Los Angeles during his broadcasting career. Dweller On The Boundary is his debut novel.
Other books by Chris M. Vise include his first novel Dweller On The Boundary, second novel Uncivil X and his third upcoming novel to be published in the summer of 2024.