The nights are drawing in…
The dead are always with us; they surround us, they live within and outside of us. They are in every random thought, every perfect blue-sky day, every slightly melancholic rainy afternoon and every flutter of autumn leaves.
Max Turner – Publisher
Rhiannon Wood – Editor in Chief
Dr. Sarah Boyd – Editor
Leonie Natascha – Publishing Assistant
Cover Image – Hearthplace by Chandreyee Chakraborty
Chandreyee Chakraborty (she/her) is an Indian photographer, writer and dancer. Her works have appeared or are forthcoming in Eternal Haunted Summer, SpecPoVerse, moocat.net, and The Sunlight Press. She thinks about inherited grief, parallel universes, etymologies and myths a normal amount.
She can be found on Substack (@cchak) and Bluesky (@cchakraborty.bsky.social).
Cover Design – A Coup of Owls
A Coup of Owls: Autumn 2026 (issue 23)
Published by A Coup of Owls Press
September 2026
This issue is available to read or as a download at the bottom of this page.
Contents
Safety
by Elliott Donaldson
A person questions the cost of the bargain they made
with the unknown being who protects them.
Second Rise
by Emily Mercurio
Lucia struggles under the weight of her marriage and her responsibilities as a woman, before she enters the doors of the convent dedicated to a mysterious goddess.
When Myth Becomes Flesh
by Esha Aamir
When Zyren, a Virelian officer, discovers a stranded human in his city, he must decide whether the strange alien before him is a threat or someone worth protecting.
Dust and the Returned
by Subham Rai
When the Harmattan wind carries Tolú’s dead grandmother back to their Lagos kitchen eleven months after her burial, she has not returned for her own unfinished business but for theirs.
Marsupial Moons & Fuzzy Frogs
by Pat Saunders
Will a marsupial moon + a fuzzy frog = the girl of her dreams?
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