Category: Fiction

PRESS RELEASE: Publication day for our first fiction title: ‘Jude’ by Elin Heron

Lucent Dreaming has been operating as a creative writing magazine since April 2018 from Cardiff. In 2023, we began our single-author trade publishing venture, launching Dominoes and Miracles by former Wales Children’s Laureate, Connor Allen. This autumn, financially supported by Books Council Wales, we launch our first fiction title. Jude by Elin Heron is a young adult novel that explores

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Elin Heron in the spotlight

Today we shine the spotlight on Elin Heron, whose story John Truslove appeared in issue 11 of Lucent Dreaming, and whose book Jude is forthcoming with Lucent Dreaming. So, what inspired your piece ‘JOHN TRUSLOVE’? Can you tell us a little more about what it’s about? There is so much I could tell you about this story because it is

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SNARE by Calhoun Crimin (Lucent Dreaming Issue 13)

TOMB SEALED BY FLOOR RISE SCIENCE FIGHTS NATURE FOR BODY OF MAN IMPRISONED The body of Theo Wood was located earlier today, having been removed from the fatal tunnel. He had been pushed into what appeared to have been a crystalline grotto, now shattered and crushed by falling rocks. According to eyewitness reports, a hand was visible. It is still

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To the Low Church by AN Grace (Lucent Dreaming Issue 13)

AN Grace lives in Liverpool. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Another Chicago, North Dakota Quarterly, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and others.T: @isthisboring Buy issue 13 today. Lucent Dreaming is an independent creative writing magazine and book publisher for beautiful, imaginative and surreal fiction, poetry and artwork from emerging authors and artists worldwide. Subscribe to Lucent Dreaming

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Rosewood Chest, by Madalena Daleziou (Lucent Dreaming Issue 13)

My great-grandmother’s chest is swollen. It is rising and falling fast tonight. My family says it’s never done this before, not since she brought it home on her market tray in 1963. The tray broke down afterwards, its right wheel rolled away in disgrace. Not that it mattered much to her. It is not every day that you find a

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Gutterball by Michael Bettendorf (Lucent Dreaming Issue 13)

Everyone who bowls around here knows him, but no one knows where he came from. They call him Gutterball, but the owner, Tad, calls him the ugliest dog in the world. Tad has no taste and he’s kind of a dumbass because Gutterball doesn’t look like any dog I’ve ever seen. He speaks to us, but only I can understand

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Of the Sea by Rosie Guyer (Lucent Dreaming Issue 13)

Marina flicks through her lonely planet guide to Spain. She is confronted by a photo of a man in a garish orange costume leaping over a group of babies on the floor beneath him. “Salto de Colacho, the Baby-Jumping Celebration, is a practice of exorcism, not dissimilar to baptism. However, as a blend of Catholic and pagan rituals, it is

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Butterfly Effect by Amy Kitcher (Lucent Dreaming Issue 12)

Born betwixt times — head in the old year, feet in the new — Nyathera’s tiny fists punched the air like she wanted to fight the world.“Love her well, mumewangu,” implored her mother, but the words died even before the umbilical was cut, leaving her bitter father to raise Nyathera on goat’s milk, cassava and shame.The meagre diet didn’t stunt

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