Issue 5

Weirder, stranger and different.

In this modern world, we have lost something. We can explain so much that the fantastical seems even further away than before. We see with prescription lenses, scientific knowledge and understanding. We no longer look with blurry-eyed wonder at the world around us. ​

Max Turner – Publisher
Rhiannon Wood – Editor in Chief
Dr. Sarah Boyd – Editor

​Cover Image – ‘Birds of Prey’ by Moses Ojo
Moses Ojo is a young Nigerian art enthusiast who uses his mind as a vista for making captivating arts while using his brushes and watercolours, thereby speaking reality through his arts and crafts to his viewers.
Instagram @_mojoart

​A Coup of Owls, Issue 5, April 2022
Published by A Coup of Owls Press

This issue is available to read or as a download at the bottom of this page.

Contents

HE WOULD SWALLOW ME WHOLE IF HE DIDN’T WANT TO BE SWALLOWED By Isabelle Ryan

Comfort… and indulging in strange appetites.

Normal
by Steph Amir

A first date. 

Two Inches
by A. Webster

Trimming hair or memories?

Somehow Different
by Miriam H. Harrison

In the light of the full moon, Anna glimpses the world of possibilities that exists beyond the limits of her assumptions.

Firebird
by Bayveen O’Connell

A phoenix in wartime.

In the Sight of this charming nowhere by Cinnamaldeide

Nathan had always been practical. He saw nothing wrong with sparing money whenever he could, even if his pragmatism sometimes led him towards dark, sinister paths.

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