The Sunset Owl

Stories for Wondering and Wandering

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“What, what, am I to do with all of this life?”: Why “Maud Martha” is My Favorite Book

“Maud Martha was born in 1917. She is still alive.”

“L to the OG”: An Unnecessary Analysis

“My boy Squiggle cooked this up–check it.”

Letters to Nobody: Why Am I Turning 26?

Tomorrow, Nobody, is my birthday.

A Defense of “Northanger Abbey”

Northanger Abbey is not the most popular of Austen’s novels.

“To Be Lost and to Be Found”: An Analysis of Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein”

In 1816, “The Year Without a Summer”, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley spent an unseasonably rainy and morose season at Lord Byron’s.

Freckled Whelp

Even rough Magic can flame amazement.

Graymalkin

Blades of yellow grass lick at my stomach, as Birnam Wood looms large.

Things that Love Night

Things that love night love not such nights as these.

The Fool

The Fool met Viola at a crosswalk, as the light turned emerald-green.

When the Tale is Told

And it appeared to all the world that she was dead.

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