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
Under bikes strewn stationary,
Trapped in rainbow weave and white polyester,
She lays in wait: blood pulsing, bones aching,
Her mind a mess of disease,
Hands longing for the devils’ orders,
And her body shifting around ghosts.
Under those lids lies rot and riot,
Corpses split open,
Traffic accidents and murders,
Brutal beatings and her fists,
Again and again,
The feel of soft flesh, hard muscle.
She’s seen her sister die,
And seen her mother driven to shoot,
Strangers at her feet,
Bloodied and battered,
Turn to faces she knows,
Tortured visages of phantom dead.
And she chills at the sight,
But fights through the fighting,
Fights through the fighting,
Calms down the sea that storms inside,
Visions that swirl through the currents of the day,
And sweeps to settle at the bottom of her muddied mind.
And after the fighting she sleeps.
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
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
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We are delighted to announce the winners of Lucent Dreaming’s 2021 Flash Fiction contest. The winning stories appear below, and will be published in our
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At the end of last year, our writers and funders received an email from me outlining a new publication timeline. It followed a long period
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