# Jack Barry — Short Fiction character guide

> Jack Barry in Short Fiction by Fritz Leiber.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Jack

**First appearance:** 0062-vi

## Who they are

A male character in various stories.

## In the story

### [Coming Attraction](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/coming-attraction)

The English narrator who rescues the masked girl and later meets her for a date.

### [The Last Letter](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/the-last-letter)

Referenced as 'Jane Dough' in the letter's recipient, though the character is actually Jane Dough.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_19_se/chapters/iv)

Referred to as Jackson; speaks in a trance about the enemy ships being space-whales and their parasitic relationship with the crew's 'brothers'.

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