The Ocean State Oyster Festival: The Bivalves Are Back in Town
We live in a state that thrives on intimacy. The heart that beats through the people is one of inter-connectedness, and that is why this year’s first annual Ocean State […]
Events:
The Flower, The Labor, and The Sea
September 27, 2025 - June 28, 2026
Book Review: Thomas D’Agostino’s Haunted Rhode Island
Fall is my absolute favorite season. The temperature is at a close to perfect level — not so hot and humid that sweat drenches everything nearly immediately and not too […]
Film Review: Sinister 2
Sinister 2 follows the events of the first film with now Ex-Deputy So & So obsessively researching the Bughuul mythology and investigating similar deaths to find out where this boogey […]
Book Review: Karen Lee Boren’s Mother Tongue
I’m sure people can spend hours debating what they feel is the most difficult part of writing, and there will be many different answers. My personal struggle focuses on the […]
Film Review: Best of Enemies
Best Of Enemies is a documentary that focuses on the 1968 televised political debates between William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal as part of ABC’s Republican and Democratic National Convention […]
Write Like Lovecraft Submissions
A number of Motif authors, illustrators and affiliated talents took part in the recent “Write like Lovecraft” contest created by The Providence Journal. What it is about our staff that […]
Idol of Thy Open Altar
When the ominous box arrived on my doorstep, I didn’t even notice. I was in the middle of a sale. A very well-dressed woman took a liking to the antique […]
Forbidden Knowledge
I. The Plan “Knowledge wants to be free!” The increasingly impassioned assistant professor defended his plan to the chief librarian who had summoned him to this awkward and unpleasant meeting […]
There but for the Grace
The crow refused to blink. The dark, hard obsidian of its eyes conveyed an inhuman awareness of its surroundings, acute but soulless, absorbing light from the abandoned mill and the […]