Selected Publications: Stories and Prose Poems
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Dark Winter Lit- Strange Animal
"It was some sort of animal. Nothing like anything I’d ever seen or known. It was crouching there in the shifting shadows, on a wraparound porch on the Esplanade above North Ramparts, on the outskirts of the French Quarter." https://www.darkwinterlit.com/post/strange-animal-by-lorette-c-luzajic Ghost Parachute- The Shambles "In her day, Agnes had taken more than a few of the lonely back home for more drinks when the pub locked up at midnight. The luckiest of them reemerged in daylight soused, bruised, confused. They never went back and seldom talked about what had happened, like the other boys who had come home from the war." https://ghostparachute.com/issue/november-2025-issue/the-shambles/ Eclectica Magazine-The Handlers "It was grainy footage, but even so, she found one face compelling. His eyes were beady black holes that glazed over when he took up the serpent and held it high in the air. A glow came over him then, his natural features, sharp as broken glass, softened by his ecstasy. " https://eclectica.org/v29n2/luzajic.html The Disappointed Housewife-Angel Ranch "Before Pablo Escobar. Before El Chapo. Before Griselda. The most terrifying crime boss of Mexico was called Maria. Maria Delfina, Maria Luisa, Maria de Jesus, and Maria del Carmen. They were all in on it." https://thedisappointedhousewife.com/2025/09/10/angel-ranch-creative-nonfiction-by-lorette-c-luzajic/ Cleaver Magazine- Lepidoptera "You almost understand his passion, his obsession, for fowl and fauna. Yours is for art history, but it is parallel in a way: galleries of still lifes and evolution in painting could be seen as kinds of taxidermy." https://www.cleavermagazine.com/lepidoptera-by-lorette-c-luzajic/ Brilliant Flash Fiction- Rocket Man "He can hear in crisp clarity a choir of subtle sounds through the forest. He has a sudden understanding of electromagnetic fields in the atmosphere, of vortexes, the gravitational pulls of the planets. He instantly knows physics and engineering. Everything is a grid of intersecting lines, humming halos of light, vibrations and vacuums. He can name the swirls of gases and see the rhythmic buzzing of atoms all around." https://brilliantflashfiction.com/2023/01/31/january-2023/ Niagara Poetry Project- Barn "David’s saws settle in behind the bounty. He points to tomato vines weaving a fence on a heap of boards, to other cauldrons blooming his brother’s favoured seeds. The air is full of saw dust and skunk and Jonamac must and the sugar of warm raspberries." https://niagarapoetry.ca/2024/08/02/barn/ Third Wednesday Magazine- The Manny "He was lean and khaki, like a grasshopper. Face flint and sharp, arms almost down to his knees. I needed someone who could carry me, and he could." https://thirdwednesdaymagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/themannylluzajic-1.pdf Ghost Parachute-Forest Fire "The dark is starless and the dark is hollow and the dark is heavy around them. Joby and the small boy move slowly between the wet pines. The terpene perfume is cold and the rocks under their feet are slippery, but Joby knows the night and he knows the woods and he knows they will stay warm if they keep moving." https://ghostparachute.com/issue/april-2025-issue/forest-fire/ MacQueen's Quinterly-The Triaminic Man "To keep his troupe of wildlife wagging and twittering, The Triaminic Man hauled a gilly wagon through strip mall parking lots, pawning oddments and bric-a-brac, plastic floral arrangements, an apothecary of herbal rubs and gooey unguents, along with assorted wrenches." http://www.macqueensquinterly.com/MacQ14/Luzajic-Triaminic-Man.aspx Ghost Parachute-Simon Says "Three times he says it: everybody down, everybody down, everybody down. He has a gun in one hand, and a gun in the other. We do what we are told." https://ghostparachute.com/issue/april-2021-issue/simon-says/ Free Flash Fiction- The Gnome "Mother, a garden gnome, hunkered under a canopy of kale and potentilla, wresting tangled roots with a trowel. Her face is ruddy and hard; it won’t soften until afternoon, when she fills her water bottle with pink wine from the box in the fridge." https://freeflashfiction.com/fiction/the-gnome/ New World Writing- A Crown For Jean-Michel Basquiat "The 80s are being born, in boombox beats and billboards boasting spray paint tags. Hip hop and Happy Meals. Guyliner. Acid wash and tie dye and glam rock and safety pins. Jean-Michel and Diaz are twenty and angry at the world. Black boys falling like flies in the New York heat." https://newworldwriting.net/lorette-c-luzajic-a-crown-for-jean-michel-basquiat/ Bending Genres- Second Hand Roses "Malcolm is the only one of us with someone waiting for him, and he doesn’t want to go there because the man is forty years older and does perverted things." https://bendinggenres.com/second-hand-roses/ |