标题: 《The Rose Egg 》作者：- Jay Lake【EPUB】 [打印本页] 作者: zaq 时间: 2014-6-13 07:34 标题: 《The Rose Egg 》作者：- Jay Lake【EPUB】 The Rose Egg By Jay Lake Scanned & Proofed By MadMaxAU * * * * ‘“The Rose Egg’ is the only story from which a character has visited me in a dream after I wrote it,“ Jay Lake told us. “Benny Bueno came to me one night in a mood of sorrow, but I never did understand what was bothering him.“ Jay has more stories upcoming in several places, including Asimov’s, Leviathan 4 and Realms of Fantasy. His fiction has been collected in Greetings From Lake Wu (a Locus recommended book) and Dogs In The Moonlight. Polyphony 4, which Jay co-edited with Deborah Lane, will appear in the autumn. * * * * Me and Skankin’ Hank was chilling in the alley down by the Sally first time I ever seen someone throw an egg. It was some skinny little black kid, darker even than Skank which is saying some, scam-pering by like he was running something hot and perishable from the safe house to the schoolyard. In a hurry, without the panic, you know what I’m saying? He come loping along on them skinny kid legs and big kid feet, flash me and Skank a thousand watt grin, and cut the corner onto Sixth Street by leaping over three snoring winos in one go. He was carrying something the size of a football, look like it was made of stained glass or some shit. “This I got to see,”