Maggie Lovitt

Author on Reedsy Prompts since May, 2023

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“Mercy” by Maggie Lovitt

Submitted to Contest #205

The coastline used to stretch out beyond the sea stacks, even at high tide. That was before the ocean had set its sights on the storied cliffside beneath our precarious village, and long before I learned the truth about her. The ocean.   I was born with the knowledge that the sea had a taste for blood. My father named me Mercy before he took up arms and set sail for some far-off land that none of us would ever see in our lifetime. He was lost at sea, swept overboard during some terrible storm before the ship ever saw battle. I wa...

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“Snake Bites ” by Maggie Lovitt

Submitted to Contest #204

For as long as prospectors have been trying their hand at dredging up gold to make themselves rich, there has always been one vampire in this town. In all of those years, she has kept the criminals punished, the preachers honest, and the women safe. The men had their Christ to follow and their crucifixes to kneel before on Sundays. They had their psalms and their scripture that commanded them to do good, to do no harm, and to act like the man they followed. Yet they only saw the words penned by fallible hands that gave them dominion over the...

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Author bio

Maggie Lovitt is the Lead News Editor at Collider and a lover of all things related to pop culture. In addition to reporting on the latest entertainment news, she is also an actor and member of the Screen Actors Guild based out of the Mid-Atlantic Region. She is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, a member of the Hollywood Critics Association, and The Cherry Picks. She has a special taste for horror films that make you think, rom-coms that dole out a healthy dose of Fremdschämen, high-flying action flicks that deliver crowd-pleasing hits, and she has an enemies-to-lovers relationship with superhero movies. In 2020, she co-founded the podcast “Petticoats & Poppies: History Girls at the Movies” with her longtime friend, and North Carolina-based film critic, Nicole Ackman. That same year, Maggie joined as a co-host on the Star Wars podcast ‘Outer Rim Beacon,’ and has appeared as a guest on numerous Star Wars podcasts and other pop culture podcasts. In 2021, she launched “Starbucks Lovers: A Taylor Swift Podcast” which allows her to geek out about her love for Taylor Swift and music. She also runs Millennial Falcon Reviews. While she spends her time writing and editing articles about the entertainment industry, Maggie’s background is in history and anthropology. She earned her Bachelor’s in Historic Preservation from the University of Mary Washington, where she focused on Colonial American history, British literature, and historic architecture. She recently earned her Master’s in Engaged Anthropology at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, where she focused her studies on dark tourism, magic, and the politics of food.