Stay Awake (short Story)

"Stay Awake" is a short story by Poppy Z. Brite, first published as a chapbook by Camelot Books in 2000 and reprinted in Gauntlet Press's tenth anniversary edition of her 1992 novel Lost Souls. The story takes place six months after the events of Lost Souls, and answers what is, according to the author, the most frequently asked question about the novel's two main characters.

Works by Poppy Z. Brite
Novels and novellas:
  • Lost Souls
  • Drawing Blood
  • Exquisite Corpse
  • The Lazarus Heart
  • Plastic Jesus
  • The Value of X
  • Liquor
  • Triads
  • Prime
  • Soul Kitchen
  • D*U*C*K
Short story collections:
  • Wormwood
  • Are You Loathsome Tonight?
  • Wrong Things (with Caitlín R. Kiernan)
  • The Devil You Know
  • Antediluvian Tales
Short stories:
  • "R.I.P."
  • "The Seed of Lost Souls"
  • "Stay Awake"
  • "Would You?"
  • "Pansu"
  • Con Party at Hotel California"
  • "The Feast of St. Rosalie"
  • "Used Stories"
  • "Crown of Thorns"
Non fiction:
  • Courtney Love: The Real Story
  • Guilty But Insane

Famous quotes containing the words stay and/or awake:

    “Never invite to dinner: those who won’t decide until the last minute; those who come more than half an hour late; those who want to bring along two or three friends; drunks; monologists; those who stay until three o’clock in the morning; those who think that conversation means having an argument; those who take a high moral tone; those who are stupid, ugly, or dull. Enforcement of these rules will enable one to eat alone every night in comfort.”
    —Mason Cooley (b. 1927)

    “To him whose elastic and vigorous thought keeps pace with the sun, the day is a perpetual morning. It matters not what the clocks say or the attitudes and labors of men. Morning is when I am awake and there is a dawn in me.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)