The Thought Collector

by Anel Viz

A man's mind goes blank, because the person sitting next to him on the park bench has "collected his thoughts". That night an odd, mousy-looking fellow tells him they have met before and are both mole men... "Don't you remember?" He can't; his memories belong to the thought collector.

Genres: M M Romance, Paranormal

Nook

First published May 5, 2011

About the author

Anel Viz, born and raised in New York City, currently resides in the Midwest, where he has taught at the same small liberal arts college for over thirty years. He has lived about one-quarter of his life in French-speaking countries. He returned to his childhood passion of writing at age sixty, and ever since he has churned out works in a variety of M/M genres: poetry, short and novel-length fiction, humor, essays, etc. He likes to experiment. Though most of his stories are romances, few of them would be called traditional romance. His work appears regularly in Wilde Oats and GayFlashFiction online magazines.

Reviews

[Td · Rating 1 out of 5]

HUH??? This is a first. 11,367 words and I couldn't bring myself to finish, stopped at about 70%. Can't tell exactly because it has been deleted never to be thought (bad pun, sorry) of again. Weird sh*t! It was tagged as comedy, I can frankly say I didn't get it.

[Arlene · Rating 1 out of 5]

Just truly bizarre and I would not recommend this silly story and I like Anel VIz more the shame.

[Juls · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have very mixed feeling about this book. As I was reading I was hoping I would understand what the book was about and to find out what the hell was going on. But what I got was a mole, yes the ones that burrow underground.
Actually this is what I pictured every time I saw the word mole. LOL



But with that said this was probably the funkiest paranormal books I’ve ever read. I’m not sure it can even be classified as paranormal. Its like a scientist went a bit crazy and added a mole gene to human test subjects and what he got was some ugly homey people with bad eyesight. Expect one nameless name who we follow throughout the story. He’s probably just average but to the mole community he looks like a celebrity. Other mole human’s cant keep their eyes off of him and they feel as though they been given a gift to speak to such a beautiful being.
The craziness doesn’t stop there. There are mind readers in this short story. How can it have more bizarro shit, this author may be kinda badass!

We follow this being and find that he is what others suspect him of but he cant remember because his memories have been taken from him. The one who took it wont give it back to him and after a romp he ends up killing the thought collector. Now that he’s done the unthinkable those powers that the thought collector had are his. Every thought he runs into goes into his mind and he cant filter them or know what to do with them. What can he do? He’s told of a bank that can keep all these thoughts. Except these thoughts are useless and now people know what he’s done.

He makes an escape underground and how convenient is that?

Very weird but I very much like it.

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[Rachel Emily · Rating 2 out of 5]

This had an interesting concept, but was just so...weird? Unusual? I don't know exactly what to say!

[Nan Hawthorne · Rating 4 out of 5]

One thing about Viz is you know you will be susrprised by some twist and turn in his strange stories. In this one a man who has had his thoughts collected discovers he can collect them too. he meets a group of mole men and discovers his place in the world.

[Sofía · Rating 1 out of 5]

W. T. F.!!!!!!!!!!!

[Christopher Moss · Rating 4 out of 5]

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