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Birdie, Birdie by Janet Innes (Lucent Dreaming Issue 7)
“Luring them is easy.” … Read More Birdie, Birdie by Janet Innes (Lucent Dreaming Issue 7)
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King and Queen We Are by Belinda Farn (Lucent Dreaming Issue 7)
“We are already in our happily ever after”… Read More King and Queen We Are by Belinda Farn (Lucent Dreaming Issue 7)
Lucent Dreaming 2020 Pamphlet and Novella Contests: Deadline 4th December 2020
2020 is here and with it our brand new competitions! Submit your short stories and poems by May 2020.… Read More Lucent Dreaming 2020 Pamphlet and Novella Contests: Deadline 4th December 2020
Announcing our Pushcart Nominations
We’re delighted to share our Pushcart nominations from 2019 for 2020. We wish we could nominate all our published pieces, but as we can’t, here are six of our many favourites from 2019! ‘Force Mechanism’ by Aremu Adams Adebisi ‘The Rhythms of Anxiety’ by Ian Grosz ‘Baintsi’ by Madeleine Milligan ‘Threads of a soft language’… Read More Announcing our Pushcart Nominations
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Sunday Morning by Sarah Evans (Lucent Dreaming Issue 5)
Nick stirs; he rolls towards you, voice slurred with sleep. “What time is it?”
“Time to move.” … Read More Sunday Morning by Sarah Evans (Lucent Dreaming Issue 5)
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Primal Energy by Katie Higgins (Lucent Dreaming Issue 5)
There was a funny series of sounds, bit like a firecracker. I raised my fist to knock again when I heard it. The buzzing I’d taken for cicadas was louder at this door.… Read More Primal Energy by Katie Higgins (Lucent Dreaming Issue 5)
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Heavy by Amy Long (Lucent Dreaming Issue 5)
Occasionally, you’ll turn on the news to watch as monuments are erected, as wars are waged, as humanity becomes something alien. Every piece of new information fills you with dread but still, you sit and watch, waiting for the incentive to act.… Read More Heavy by Amy Long (Lucent Dreaming Issue 5)
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Nymphaea by Susan Nickalls (Lucent Dreaming Issue 5)
She couldn’t remember seeing them where they usually were; on the table by the coat stand. Maybe Charles hid them again, to avoid her ‘becoming too distracted from her wifely duties’. … Read More Nymphaea by Susan Nickalls (Lucent Dreaming Issue 5)
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The Feeding by Helen Laycock (Lucent Dreaming Issue 5)
I was in a night palace. The blackness poured into every chink in the landscape.
Above me, the moon looked like a round window. Someone was at home and they had left the light on.… Read More The Feeding by Helen Laycock (Lucent Dreaming Issue 5)
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Lead by Jenna Law (Lucent Dreaming Issue 5)
Above the monitor I caught sight of a bulging bruise, a cut, just below his hairline. His usually just-been-cut symmetrical hair had been sculpted to hang more loosely over to one side. More wax had been used that day.… Read More Lead by Jenna Law (Lucent Dreaming Issue 5)