Lauren Doyle Owens

@ldoyleowens.bsky.social

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Fiction writer and bleeding heart liberal. Author of The Other Side of Everything (S&S). Mother through adoption. #woolfer https://www.laurendoyleowens.com/

A copy of The Dissenters by Youssef Rakha.
Homemade sign taped to a door that says: Clara’s BeDRoom! No wun in my BeDRoom! ic Sept For Dade. 🤍 Thank you
Protest sign that says “Eggs are so expensive because all the chickens are in congress.”
White sticker that says “Regine change begins at home” in blue text.
Screen shot of phone calling FL Senator Ashley Moody.
Video of a pony riding in the back of a minivan.
Video of a hound dog sticking its head out the window of a black sedan as it speeds down a highway.
White poster board that reads “This is a love America rally.”
Highway at night as seen through car windshield. Above the highway, in the sky, is a pin-straight string of lights.
Screenshot from the NYT that says: President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador wrote in a social media post that Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia will return to custody following his meeting at a San Salvador hotel with Senator Van Hollen. This is the first time anyone has been able to make contact with Abrego Garcia since was deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration on March 15.
Halfed cherry tomatoes over a slick of olive oil in a cast iron skillet.
Interior of card with child’s writing in red ink. Ber mom I no Ho m Uch U Lov Me
Screenshot from the NYT that says: Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.
A blanket of snow in the foreground with a forest in the background.
Assembled Kid Kraft dollhouse. Three floors and an attic. Two Barbie’s on the third floor.
Large cardboard box in the foreground, Christmas tree in the background. The box says KidKraft Charlotte Dollhouse.
Child shaping a tiny mound of snow.
A child looks out the window to the snowy ground below.
A child suitcase stuffed full of toys including two Bluey’s and a pink stuffed cow.
Email inbox with birthday wishes from: Broward County public libraries, Gastro Health, Club Pilates and Yoga Connection.
A drawing of the Bluey characters Frisky and Uncle Rad on the day they met with the words “Almond milk shampoo!” in quotes.
(Left) A crude pencil drawing of the TV character Bluey with the words “Christmas swim!” (Right) A child’s ink and crayon drawing on Bluey.
Audio cover of Colored Television by Danzy Senna. A novel.
Small fluffy dog in a basket attached to a motorcycle.
An AITA post for #UnhingedPit that says: Mark: When I died, I set off all the smoke detectors in the house to wake up my sister. AITA? Eugenia: I’m pretty sure my brother’s ghost is still in this house, and don’t want to sell it until I can be sure that he has passed. My family disagrees. AITA? Brendan: I am secretly acquiring properties to bulldoze the entire neighborhood in order to build new, luxury homes in place of these old pieces of shit. AITA? On top of graphic of a house with three lights on, on top of the title The House on Kitchen Street by Lauren Doyle Owens.
Moodboard for The House on Kitchen Street, a novel by Lauren Doyle Owens. From top left: A Virgin Mary garden statue; side two of the vinyl of Neil Young's Everybody Knows This is Nowhere; black and white photo of children dressed in creepy Halloween costumes; black and white graveside photo, looking up from the grave with family looking down, the old two-dollar theater in Arbutus Maryland, Hollywood Theater, (marquee says ALL SEATS 2.00, Matinee Daily, 1 Wise Guys R, 2 Back to the Future PG); text field The House on Kitchen Street, The Corrections Meets Saints for All Occasions.
Bridge over water in a Japanese Garden in South Florida. The sun is burning through the clouds making the trees and water glow.
Cover of The God of the Woods by Liz Moore.
Water color of a gun shooting flowers by Linnaea Mallette.