Joy – MockingOwl Roost Volume 4, Issue 1

Welcome to the new season of the MockingOwl Roost’s themed issues. We’re launching the year with an uplifting issue themed on joy. Read along for joy in unusual and unexpected moments, every day life, and much more in the beautiful short stories, creative nonfiction, poetry, artwork, and more.

Contributors from six countries shared their take on joy through their works. Come along to celebrate and experience your own joy as you read and reflect.

Looking for more delightful reading? Many of our issues, short stories, essays, poetry, and other creative works emphasize delight, wonder, beauty, and joy.

• Bermuda Nocturne – Poetry
• By the Light of the Moon – Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, & Part 4 – Romance Fiction
• The Total Solar Eclipse – My Favorite Things
• A Cupcake for Women’s Day – Poetry
• Pinkies Up Red Velvet Cake Tea Review
• Traveling Back in Time with Outlander – Literary Travel
• Unexpected Delights – MockingOwl Roost magazine issue
• The Snow’s New Year Message – Poetry
• Epiphany (in Peaches) – Flash Fiction
• Holding the Love – Song
• Of Bats and Ravens at the Black Orb – Speculative Fiction
• Bath Time – Creative Nonfiction
• Memories On a Rainy Evening – Emotive Fiction
• Concerto, World Premiere – Poetry

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  Alive and Free
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  Wide, Wild World
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  Side Roads and Detours
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  Coffee Ritual 
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  A Walk Through the Museum: Where Artifacts Whisper Their Stories
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  November Pine
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  KPop Demon Hunters (2025): Musical/Action
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  Yonder Goes the Tumbleweed
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  Among the Distant Stars
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  Breath of Nature – Poetry Special
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  In Between
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  All the World’s a Stage
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  The Flying Housewife, A True Story – Audio Drama
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  Thank God I’m Leaving Here! – Writing Memories
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  Unconventional Choices – Things I Wish I Had Said
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  Alyxander LaBranche – a PDF Art Gallery
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  Elementary, My Dear Marple
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  Dragon Scales and Other Tails
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  Music & Light – Regular Issue of the MockingOwl Roost
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  Domestic Violence Awareness – Special Issue of the MockingOwl Roost
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  Prized Myths and Fairy Tales of the MockingOwl Roost
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  The MockingOwl Roost: Sci-Fi Edition 2024
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  Beauty – the MockingOwl Roost
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  Fantasy Fiction Issue – 2024
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  Poetry Special #2 – 2024
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  The MockingOwl Roost Poetry Special #1 – 2024
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  Seafaring/Pirates Special Issue of the MockingOwl Roost
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  Triannual: Unexpected Delights
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  Our First Song! – Holding the Love by Faris Ridzuan (Frees Heart)
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  Overcoming – Triannual Issue
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  Poetry Special 2023, the MockingOwl Roost
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  Unknown and Unseen – Triannual Issue
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  All the Colors: A Special Issue of the MockingOwl Roost
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  Celebrating Two Years of the MockingOwl Roost: A Look at What We’ve Done
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  Yugen – Volume 2, Issue 6 of the MockingOwl Roost
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  MockingOwl Creatives Announcement: We’re Opening a Publishing House!
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  The MockingOwl Roost Special Issue: Beginning to End – a Poetry & Art Special of 2022
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  MockingOwl Roost Quarterly: Introspection
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  Special Announcement from the MockingOwl Roost: The Opening of the Artist-in-Residence Program
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  The MockingOwl Roost Volume II, Issue 2: Discovery
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  The MockingOwl Roost Volume 2, Issue 1: Exploration
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  The Jerrie Mock Podcast – Season 2, Episode 1, Now Live!
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  The MockingOwl Roost Volume 1, Issue 4: Community
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  The MockingOwl Roost Issue 3: Wonder
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  Things I Wish I’d Said: “Dear Pastor Who Blamed Me for Being Abused”
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  A Peak Inside the Flock of MockingOwls: Our Work Spaces
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  The Second Issue of the MockingOwl Roost: Dreams
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  The First Issue of the MockingOwl Roost – Expectation