Before and After.
These past few months, I’ve been thinking about life-changing incidents – the good and the bad. (I know that’s a heavy thought, but sometimes life is a little weighty.) I have had my fair share of these, just like you, I’m sure. They’re the events that draw a clear line between the before and after. Before the accident, after my father died, before I met my partner. These prefixes become woven into our language and experience, shaping who we are and how we perceive the world.
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A Coup of Owls: Summer 2024 (issue 14)
Published by A Coup of Owls Press
June 2024
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Contents
Empedocles
by Mark Colbourne
An unreliable narrator slowly reveals a chilling enslavement to the four elements…
How Now, Ophelia?
by Allison Wall
Trapped in an endlessly repeating cycle of events, Ophelia decides to save herself by taking someone else’s part: Hamlet’s.
Odontophilia
by Isabelle Ryan
A young man keeps losing his teeth, so a friend tries to help.
Debris and Salvation
by Victor Okechukwu
The abortion laws in Nigeria have grave consequences.
Dawn
by Elli Ross
Rachael, at sixteen, finds herself dealing with her old, dead imaginary friend as she tries to navigate her first relationship with a boy.
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