Lórien Lucero

The Sundrop is Lorien’s newest writing project, begun in late September of 2025.

A short look into how the foodways, language, folklore, history, art, and architecture of Charleston, South Carolina, connect to the Caribbean, and how these connections shaped the region’s—and the nation’s—unique culture.

This one has something of a complicated history.

She didn’t tell Lamar what she’d actually seen in the woods till later that evening, in his studio.

“If we’re going to do this,” Lamar said, “the best way is by water.”

Dark eyes, half-hid by the glare on his wire-frame glasses, and a bristly white mustache.

“Don’t know how you can drink that in this heat.”

Lamar’s Rio slid into the lot Ed’s, a dive on the edge of town some three or four miles up Sixty-one.

The stranger sped them on in short strokes, stabbing the creek with his paddle like a heron spearing fish.

Lórien Lucero

The Sundrop

Charleston, SC: American South, Caribbean North

The Sundrop

Charleston, SC: American South, Caribbean North

Thanks & Acknowledgments

Chapter VIII. Rivers Meet

Chapter VII. The Rescue Dog

Chapter VI. Seafoam

Chapter V. Maybank

Chapter IV. Haint Blue

Chapter III. Shadow Box

Chapter II. Not a Ghost, But an Echo

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