
Awake and Dancing

Lorette C. Luzajic is addicted to flash, often inspired by visual art. Her work has been widely nominated, anthologized, taught in writing courses from Tennessee to Egypt, and translated into Urdu, Arabic, and Spanish. Her most recent book is Disgust (Cyberwit Books, 2025), a collection of ekphrastic stories on the theme of illness, written during recovery from breast cancer and a botched leg surgery. Two of her stories have been selected for Best Small Fictions anthologies, and she has a story forthcoming in Best Microfiction 2026.