PARAPHENATIC is a collection of essays and short fiction.
me
When I was very young, I wrote a twelve-line work of fiction for My First Story – Berkshire & Oxfordshire, a school initiative that allowed me to see my writing in print for the first time.
From that point on, I busied myself with trying to write for publication, chasing that feeling of seeing my words, plucked out of thin air by my brain, in print, backed by editors and publishers with real credit and real stakes.
I tried, at various times in my life, to engage with writing at different levels. Almost nothing about my approach was consistent, save for my unwavering failure to produce something meaningful. I wrote the opening chapters to forever-unfinished novels in tacky writing apps. I wrote vacuous poetry in a notebook for largely aesthetic purposes. I wrote for social media, for trends, for attention, for money (in vain), but I hadn’t yet figured out how to write, what to write about, or why I liked writing.
As I grew up, I started to figure out the answers to those questions. I wrote more for myself, about things in which I was genuinely interested, in a style which was not an emulation of my favourite authors and essayists, but completely my own, even if it were worse off for it.
I started to genuinely like writing, almost a decade after that time I got a book in the mail and flipped it to page 173 to see my own name in the accreditations.
my work
My work has been accepted or is forthcoming in The Hooghly Review, Clockwise Cat, Academy of Heart and Mind, Down in The Dirt, and Slash Magazine.
My short fiction is forthcoming in an anthology by Querencia Press.
This blog, PARAPHENATIC (FKA Storefront Subway), is a collection of essays and short fiction.
My debut anthology, Songs of Speech, is available now.
you
You can send me an email at lucazani2710@outlook.com, and I am on Bluesky at @lucazani.bsky.social.
You can, but don’t have to, buy my book Songs of Speech, available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle.
if you wish to support my work with a one-time donation, you can do so here.
