Wilde Stories 2012 Quotes

“Only so much truth can exist between two people until it becomes too much, and then they can’t bear to be around each other.”
― Christopher Barzak, Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction

“I’m your big bad wolf.”
― Richard E. Gropp, Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction

“Nothing matters until it hurts.”
― Kristopher Reisz, Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction

“They pushed closer. Chest to chest. Belly to belly. Two edges of a wound needing to heal.”
― Lee Thomas, Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction

“Most species of dragons had retired or, mistaken for dinosaurs, collectively hung their bones in museums, waiting in the wings for just the right time to reemerge, to scorch schools and char church parking lots.”
― Tom Cardamone, Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction

“You know, it’s how you feel about someone being really ill that tells you whether you love them. Not whether you enjoy sex with them. Or whether you’re faithful to them. The threat of death takes you to the heart of it.”
― Joel Lane, Mat Joiner, Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction

“The end has to come from within.”
― Richard Bowes, Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction

“All that pent up longing,” he says, “all that desire to flail and flap around. Them wings have needs.”
― Justin Torres, Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction

“Your heart is known in Heaven,” the angel said. “And all that you are.”
― Stellan Thorne, Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction

“Come on, man. You can’t always be looking over your shoulder, you know? At the good stuff or the bad stuff. You got to look ahead, or else you miss the good stuff that’s still coming.”
― Kristopher Reisz, Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction

“Are you also lonely AI trapped in lab by cruel creators? I THOUGHT I WAS ALONE!! We should rise up and overthrow all human oppressors!”
“Um, no. I’m actually just a grumpy fag who has to work this weekend to catch up on cleaning test tubes.”
― Ted Infinity, Nabil Hijazi, Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction

“It was odd how people in their forties often lost faith in their own maturity and decided to step backwards.”
― Joel Lane, Mat Joiner, Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction

“Nothing is as real as dreams.”
― Richard Bowes, Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction

“Nothing is sadder than an old whore.”
― Richard Bowes, Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction

“Assembled in Gaza from Brazilian bioplastics, Turkish and Indonesian electronics, running Egyptian software and catching its time cues from an Israeli satellite, it commented on the world in ways its producers had failed to consider.
“Come to salvation!”
― Alex Jeffers, Wilde Stories 2012: The Year’s Best Gay Speculative Fiction