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Bisonnes Strikes Again With More Gay Short Stories Oct 06, 2009
By D. Carr
"avid reader"
Fred Bisonnes, author of "Gemini In Manzanillo," a collection of gay-erotica short stories and a novella, has come up with another winner in the same vein, "The Boy With Bedroom Eyes." You'll do some traveling in this one: Rio de Janeiro's Ipanema Beach (the setting for the first story and title of the collection); Taormina in Sicily (where you'll meet and might recognize a couple of well-known celebrities of a bygone era); the ancient city of Pompeii in Italy, about the time of the famous eruption of Mt. Vesuvius in 79 A.D.; and exotic Egypt, ca. 1926
Aside from the foreign locales in four of the eight pieces, Bisonnes sets four of them in our own present day United States, with one small exception, that being a story that takes place at an Ice Capades show in Des Moines, Iowa way back in 1969. The "now" stories take the reader from the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennesee, where the protagonist gets "waylaid" (pun intended) on a trip from Philadelphia to San Francisco (he never does make it there) to Santa Fe, New Mexico and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
You'll meet such diverse chacters as a defected Russian champion figure skater; a famous Irish writer and his bold English lord companion; a tattooed hillbilly; an online "date" who calls himself "towncowboy"; an Iraq war veteran ex-Marine body builder; a Roman aristocrat and his freed former sex-slave; and three archaeologists (two of whom are lovers). Sound interesting? Believe me, it is!
As noted above, Bisonnes (as he did in his first anthology) includes a novella in this one titled "Secrets of the Mystery Tomb," set in Egypt circa 1926 when an American team of archaeologists discover an intact burial at Luxor (shades of Howard Carter's famous discovery of King Tut's tomb in 1922), which turns out to be that of one of the most famous (and infamous) figures in Egypt's "golden era," the 18th Dynasty. As an Egyptophile fascinnated with this period, I found the story particularly intriguing. I think you will too.
You might also want to check out Bisonnes' latest effort, a full length vampire novel (great idea, since vampires are very "hot" right now!) titled "Blood Narcissus" (see my review).
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