• The cover of the movie bride surrounded in a green scalloped border with a neutral background. The Bride! Text: The Bride!, Gretchen Wallett, Movie Review

    A Review of The Bride!: Does Violence Help Visibility? 

    I am a horror fan, be it book or movie. I’m not squeamish about film violence when it feels appropriate. So I’ve struggled with this caveat in The Bride!

  • Autumn leaves next to the trunk of a tree, with a rake sitting by. leaves Text: Autumn Rain, Duane Anderson, Autumn Poetry

    Autumn Rain

    It was raining leaves, and he was outside trying to catch each one with his rake, as if to catch every drop…

  • The first summer book sitting on a dark wooden table. first summer Text: First smmer, zina mora, book review

    First Summer, A Debut Lit-Fic Review

    The novel was exactly what I needed in the moment: comforting, summer vibes neatly packaged in about two-hundred pages.

  • A blurred christmas tree with lights sitting behind a cage. killing spree Text: One good turn, Sue cook, fiction

    One Good Turn

    **Contains Triggers: Mentions of Child Death or Harm** We co-existed peacefully once, with hardly a sighting, but then something happened. The Chitids became aggressive, killing humans en masse — especially targeting our children.

  • A couple holding hands facing the ocean. embedded Text: Escape Plan, Ronald V. Micci, Poetry

    Escape Plan

    Okay let’s go away, so you say, oh so if, could this seem, where the heavens, and the winds led the currents astray.

Quarterly Issues

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🦉 The MockingOwl Roost Issue 3 – Wonder (available now)
🦉 Submissions open for Issue 1, Volume 4: Community. until midnight CST on August 15.
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