More or less literally juvenilia, in this case. In the various excavations of my basement, some very old manuscripts have turned up. I don't have time to re-key them, but I have scanned a few things to .pdf for your delectation. Some of the scans are a little hard to read, but this is a problem with the source material more than with the scanning ( Read more... )

This is an online reprint of a story of mine which appeared ten years ago in The Third Alternative. I've been listening lately to the song which inspired it, Camper Van Beethoven's "Jack Ruby".

All Our Heroes Are Bastards

by Jay LakeMy cousin Victor and I stood in the night's hot rain, wondering if my sister would come back from the dead. The ( Read more... )

Asimov’s for April/May 2013 (3 of 3) - In which my novella "The Stars Do Not Lie" is held up as an example of bad fiction. (Honor is restored, however.) Proving once again that the story truly does belong to the reader.

The Telegraph on Sex - Cora Buhlert with a roundup on British commentary on literary sex scenes. Mmm, literature.

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Reader (and musician) Luke Atencio yesterday sent me these glorious found photos of the Wall, from my Mainspring cycle.


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"The Stars Do Not Lie" - My Nebula-nominated novella is now online at the Asimov's Web site.

Fantasy Fans: Where’s Your Outrage? - N.K. Jemisin on the Oscars and Quvenzhané Wallis.

Fifty Shades of Brains - Sex. Zombies. Really annoying present tense narration. (Via a friend who almost certainly wishes to remain anonymous.)

Cataloging the Borg ( Read more... )

On being exhausted, albeit for good reasons

As previously mentioned, Friday afternoon I drove ( Read more... )

A couple of folks asked about details on the short fiction which has been published from the continuity of Original Destiny, Manifest Sin, the Old West fantasy/alternate history novel I plan to resume writing in mid-April. Here's what has been published:

• "Jefferson's West" - Boondocks Fantasy, ed. Jean Rabe - Not currently available online, but a ( Read more... )

Somewhere in the wee hours of last night, I woke up to a mental postcard sent from my now long-buried writing mind. Fred handed me a story stub, which I can yet recall this morning. As I am unlikely to ever write this, I offer to you the first 3%-5% of a new Jay Lake story. Feel free to make it your own, or ignore it as you see fit ( Read more... )

This is from my senior year in high school, spring of 1982 to be specific. It's the first short story I can remember writing. (Prior to that point, I was all about the poetry.) This was a class assignment, to write in the style of Charles Brockden Brown's Wieland [ Powells | BN ]. I believe I was also influenced by Rosemary Sutcliff's The Silver ( Read more... )

My story "The Speed of Time" is up in podcast and Web reprint at Escape Pod

Darth Vader In A Kilt On A Unicycle Playing Bagpipes - This video will make your brain hurt, I promise. (Thanks to Scrivener's Error.)

How to piss off a frog - Hahahahahahah.

Examining His Own Body, Stanford Geneticist Stops Diabetes in Its Tracks (Via Emily Siskin.)

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