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"The Cusp Of Something" by Jai Clare
Release date: 1 November 2007
He stands at the threshold, feeling
on the cusp of something and yet half empty and dizzy with visions and
aromas. He feels solid and yet capable of flight. Hard and flimsy. There’s
something here, there’s something he needs to know, to see. He steps
forward.
Jai Clare’s stories are filled with the disaffected, those who
kick against their everyday lives, who crave the mystic when seeking their
spirituality, and who are desperate to be alone as much as they are desperate
to be with someone. Whether in North Africa, Greece, or Britain her characters’
concerns remain the same. To find meaning in the universal and the personal,
through transient sex or emotional depth. All told with a fluid intensity
of prose that cuts to the heart of them, lays them bare to misfortune
and fortune, and stands them waiting on the brink of discovery.
"Jai Clare is a courageously inventive writer whose short pieces
are clever, ambitious, delightful and always surprising." –
Jim Crace, author of The
Pesthouse.
"Jai Clare has understood the secret of the short story: lyricism,
brevity, consequentiality. She brings to her writing an easy and deep-reaching
grasp of character and a lovely open eroticism. She is a serious writer
whom we are lucky to have." - Sebastian
Barker, editor of London
Magazine.
Available to order in paperback from: Elastic
Press | Amazon.co.uk
| Amazon.com
A limited run of hardback editions are available from Elastic
Press.
Literary Fiction
In Print
The Cusp Of Something
200 pages
Publication Date: 1 November 2007
Publisher: Elastic Press
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0955318130 | ISBN-13: 978-0955318139
Flash piece - Aesthetica 8
Sian and Unstrange Emotions - QWF
The Lightest Blue - London Magazine
Glass in a Field of Green - Bonfire - Inaugural issue of NEW
UK print magazine
The Hand of Fatima - Agni 60, 2004, USA
More Moments of Sheer Joy - Cleis Press - Foreign Affairs Erotic
Travel Tales anthology, September 2004.
Under a Tree they found me - Gator Springs Gazette
Balloons - The London Magazine April 2003
When we lost Silvina - Buzzwords July 2003
Bone on Bone - The London Magazine Oct 2002
The Lightest Blue - Night Train Oct 2002
Eyes Like water, like Ice - Nemonymous May 2002
Hide and Seek - QWF October 2002
Separate Beds - Buzzwords 2001
The Land is Lighting - Odyssey Magazine 1998
Liza Blooming - Staple 39 1997
Talking to Lily - QWF 1996
That we are, what we are - Herstory 1995
The Sound of Laughter - The Manic Scribbler 1992
Online
Ramblista - Barcelona Review
Bone on bone - Agni
Liza Blooming - Zoetrope All-story EXTRA
Man of Shapes - Absinthe Literary review
The land is lighting - Storyville anthology
Throwing up over buttercups - Pindeldyboz
Coldness - Paumanok review
Talking to lily - in posse review
The seven week Labour of Freddie Ryland - Litpot
The exiled - Gator Springs Gazette
ForthcomingCadenza
Nola Spleen, USA
Wheatland Press anthology on Muses - May 2005
ContestsCadenza Short Story competition, shortlisted
Fish Unpublished novel competition, 2004 - longlisted
Fish Short Story Prize 2003, Longlisted, 180 or 2025
Glimmer Train Spring 2004, Very Short Story, finalist
Night Train, Firebox Fiction, finalist
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Science Fiction (ish)
In Print
Michael's Rooms - Roadworks 1999
Shadows in Light - Voyage Magazine 2001
The Unionized - Redsine (Australia) 2001
OnlineRoof of God
- Owlsoup
Mascots and Martyrs - Owlsoup
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Non-Fiction
Web review column for Zene magazine for over 2 years (Became The Fix)
Book review column for the Women Writers Newsletter
Various reviews for Videovista, Terror Tales, Jackhammer etc
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Poetry
Like Magic - 1986, chapbook
Lunatics Lovers and Poets, anthology, Three Fishes Press 1992
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