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Bar in Half Moon Cay, Bahamas

Citrus

By: Lorien Lucero August 14, 2021December 10, 2025
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If the ferry didn’t come soon it wouldn’t come at all, and Simon would be stuck on Hogfish Key another night.

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Cut bamboo

Constellation

By: Lorien Lucero August 14, 2021December 10, 2025
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It was a sound he might have heard any night on the edge of the woods, machete in hand, bent from cutting bamboo from the slope beyond the highway.

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People of Sand and Waves

By: Lorien Lucero May 13, 2020December 10, 2025
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I spit—salt on my lips, thick on my tongue, and sand, and something worse…

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View of the Ashley River from Drayton Hall in Charleston, SC. Photo by Lorien Lucero.

The Sea Island

By: Lorien Lucero May 17, 2016December 10, 2025
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The sound the stone made as it chipped the old oak was dull and hollow.

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