When Night Falls

by John Lugo-Trebble

First published in 2016 by Litro Magazine #TuesdayTales. Set in London, grieving Joe floats through the streets and bars in Soho. Somewhere between a bad dream and reality, he confronts the loss of his soul mate in the only way he knows how.

10 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 28, 2020

About the author

My mother used to say that from the moment I learned to walk, I was walking the other way. This statement did not just end up applying to my life, but also my writing.
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I am a Puerto Rican Bronx native exiled to the wilds of Cornwall by fate and circumstance. Having lived in New York, London, Berlin and Prague, my husband and I moved to West Cornwall where we live in a barn with our adventurous cats and lots of stars.

I am heavily influenced by urban landscapes and the interconnected lives of people in an increasingly globalised world. I love to explore the small moments that bring humanity to impersonal surroundings. In addition to fiction, I enjoy writing articles about the writer experience and engaging with memory and mediums like Film and Music.

My work has appeared in Litro Magazine #TuesdayTales, The Review Review and Jonathan.

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Reviews

[Robert Fontenot · Rating 2 out of 5]

The description might have been the problem, leading me to expect something a little deeper and more melancholy than what's on the page. It also made me think of the film "Urbania" which similarly portrayed a man grieving a lost love while stalking the streets of a urban center, but to much greater effect. The actual story is slight, shallow, and both overly florid and under written. We never get much of a feel for the main character or for the man he lost nor is there much incident beyond some casual drug use, a brief interaction with an acquaintance and a hastily alluded too sexual encounter. It doesn't really work as a story or as an advertisement for the author's other works.

[Mateo Castrejon · Rating 4 out of 5]

quick read

Quick and easy read. Feels like an introduction to a novel as it leaves you wondering, how does he come to terms in full? Is this one night enough, or barely enough? X