Wade
Ogletree
Genre
Literary
Christian
Honorable Mention:
Best Fantasy and Horror, 2007
"The Sphinx and Ernest Hemingway"
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Wade
Ogletree |
Mind Flights,
Abyss & Apex,
Fantasy Magazine, Allegory Ezine,
The Sword Review (3x), Dragons Knights & Angels,
Haruah: Breath of Heaven, Surprising Stories,
The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature,
Sage of Consciousness (2x), and Distant Passages
From Tangentonline.com's review of Dragons, Knights, & Angels Aug. 2006, part 2.
Wade Ogletree struck a chord of authenticity with “Tyler McHenry, Middle-Aged Lover of Books.” At a mere four hundred and sixty words, the story hauls you in, makes its point, and finishes.
... the prose glides along, stopping only long enough to harvest the details, leaving the chaff by the roadside. The outcome was an auspicious nonpareil that caught me off guard. Mr. Ogletree’s text incorporates just enough science fiction technology to spur the reader forward and enough common sense language to make the story easy to read. It's the type of work I like seeing in Dragons, Knights, & Angels: spiritual, yet not preachy. This gets a high recommendation from me.
From Tangentonline.com's review of Fantasy Magazine issue #2.
In "The Sphinx and Ernest Hemingway," Wade Ogletree
pays eloquent homage to the Hemingway story "The Short, Happy Life of
Francis Macomber." On safari, Hemingway shoots a female sphinx
that he has mistaken for a lion. When he comes to claim his kill, the
sphinx has concealed enough of herself that he again mistakes her for
something she is not —this time a wounded woman.
Ogletree paints an interesting portrait of Hemingway that rings startlingly
true. He is not the myth portrayed as a parallel to the sphinx.
Just as she is neither lion nor human, Hemingway is not a monster or a god.
The central message seems to be that it could only end badly for either one
to embrace and transform into one half of who they are, while abandoning the
other half completely.
From Tangentonline.com's review of The Sword Review issue #11.
“Aleskei’s Revolution” by Wade Ogletree ... The CEO of Concupi Science, Inc., Aleskei Volchenkov, is a frail and sickly old man. Using his company’s time machine, he wishes to relive an affair from long ago. But Aleskei’s greedy desires put stress on both his health and his relationship with his wife, and might be the end of him.
Aleskei is an interesting character, having both virtues and flaws. Traveling back with him made for strong reading, and although the story is fairly linear, I enjoyed it..
Window Blind Coming to: Mind Flights
Christian Sci-Fi
The Station Dec, 2007: Haruah:
Breath of Heaven
Literary
The Lion of Lucerne
Dec, 2007: The Sword Review
Christian Sci-Fi
And
Saturn Below May, 2007: Abyss & Apex
Hard Sci-Fi
Tyler McHenry, Middle Aged Lover of Books
Aug, 2006: Dragons, Knights, & Angels
Christian Sci-Fi Flash
Aleskei's Revolution Feb,
2006: The Sword Review
Soft Sci-Fi / Time Travel
The Sphinx and
Ernest Hemingway Feb, 2006: Fantasy Magazine
Fantasy
Reprinted: Allegory Ezine
The House Where Angela Died
Sept, 2005: Surprising Stories
Literary
Shape Shifters in Love
October, 2005: The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
Fantasy
Reprinted: Better Fiction, 2:2
A Picture's Worth
artwork by Melinda Reynolds
A Picture's Worth
May 9, 2005: The Sword Review
Literary Thriller
Reprinted: Distant
Passages, the Best of Double-Edged Publishing, 2005
Better Fiction, Year in Review:
2005
Sage of Consciousness, 2:3
Haunted May,
2005: Sage of Consciousness
Literary
The Writing Mind: Interviewed Jan 2006: The Sword Review