• An illustrated woman with long dark hair tilts her face up toward the sky as water splashes around her. Bubbles beside her hold small images of a couple walking together on a beach at sunset. crystal ball Text: With You, NC Maha, Poetry.

    With You

    The lake swallows me in a scramble of cramping muscles and weeds. I flail, gasp swallow thrash; bubbles jet through water, a string of crystal balls to the past I reach to catch.

  • Red background with skin-like texture. Dark burgundy squares containing text: Horror Novel Review & Zina Mona. Left and top is the book cover of The Need by Megan Mostyn-Brown

    The Need Review – A Hunger of Horror

    The novel is dark and fast-paced, and the cast one that we can sympathize with — from the bystanders even to the most deplorable.

  • An ipad sitting up on a table with the book cover of Lucky on the front. lucky Text: Lucky, a book review, Megan Sawka

    A Review of Lucky: The Emotional Cost of a Lifelong Con

    The story flashes from past to present, showing how he trained her to commit petty crimes, and how those crimes have impacted her. Throughout the novel, she reconnects with people from her past to uncover secrets she didn’t even know existed.

  • A girl swimming to the top of the surface under water. childhood Text: Childhood is breathing under water, Andrea Koroluk, poetry

    Childhood is Breathing Underwater

    Do you remember when you launched your body into the deep, cold water, the surrender as you plummeted through complete darkness, paused?

  • A captain driving a boat in the water with a close up of the boat's navigation tools. meaningless Text: I am a disappearing man, Stephen M.H. Braitman, poetry

    I Am a Disappearing Man

    Art fades into the gloom, music can no longer be heard. The players become ghosts on a dim stage. Words separate from their meaning and books are useless objects…

Quarterly & Special Issues

  • Domestic Violence Awareness Issue 2024 - image of mannequins covered in caution tape - reading "your body belongs to you" - TEXT: The MockingOwl Roost - Domestic Violence Awareness Special 2024
  • Beauty cover image
  • Joy - front cover
  • Poetry special 2023
  • Poetry Special 2022 cover
  • Introspection issue cover
  • Sleeper of R'Lyeh cover
  • cover image of the MockingOwl Roost, Volume 1, Issue 4: Community
  • giant elephant in forest with a man standing in front of the elephant
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