René E. Wilde is this CSUSM senior’s pseudonym, inspired by Irish writer Oscar Wilde. After reading “A Picture of Dorian Gray,” which they deemed the “messiest love triangle ever,” they had to pay homage.
René E. Wilde explores queer loneliness and apocalyptic dread in their fiction. These themes are particularly present in “Goat Boy,” “Saint Vinny,” and “The Green Light at the End of Time,” the titles of two unpublished short stories and a full-length novel yet to hit the shelves.
“Goat Boy” is a love letter to vampires in small towns. Wilde worked on “Goat Boy” in a creative writing workshop at CSUSM. It began with two dense pages of backstory and ”blood-sucking” before the story spilled out of their mind…