CL Lucas Bayou-Born, Combat Written patch: B-52 Stratofortress and falling bomb on an orange sunburst

The Work

Four books in progress, and the essays that spill out between them.

Novel

Killing Jane Fonda

Elegy of a Misfortunate Son

  • Vietnam era to the early 1990s
  • Inherited trauma and political performance
  • Over twenty years in the making
Read an excerpt
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Short Stories

Crawfish and Vinegar Pie

With BE Clark

  • Raunchy, raw, and redemptive
  • From cane fields to combat zones
  • Co-written with BE Clark
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Poetry

Ajax Along the Teche

  • Betrayal, faith, redemption
  • Louisiana to the Pacific Northwest
  • The personal work
Read a poem
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Transgressive Fiction, as Jeaux Dirte

Soul Tool

  • Aggressive pulp
  • Science meets fiction meets revenge
  • Definitely unique writing
An excerpt, if you dare
Essays & Opinion

From the Desk of CL Lucas

  • Insights behind the stories
  • Published as they are written
  • Occasionally a fight worth picking
Read one
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Nothing here is published yet. Samples are posted as each manuscript reaches a passage worth showing, and the press kit carries the current state of all of it.

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