Triannual: Unexpected Delights

As 2023 winds down, we offer one more triannual publication of the MockingOwl Roost: Unexpected Delights. Within these pages, find poetry, fiction, essays, versed-fiction, photography, and much more reflecting this theme. It’s been a long year – and we’ve probably all had more than our share of tough times. Let the delights and joy of this issue, filled with the beauty of photography, artwork, and more, fill you once more with hope in humanity, delight in the creatures of the world – and the next! – and all the wonders you could hope for as the year winds down.

Please enjoy Unexpected Delights, a beautifully themed issue of the MockingOwl Roost.

**The PDF magazine is best viewed on a laptop or desktop computer. It is an image-rich document so may take several moments to load, particularly on tablets/iPads or smartphones.**

Enjoy some of our previous issues and blog posts as well:

• Welcome Back – a poem
• Yugen – quarterly issue
• Poetry special 2022
• Epiphany – flash fiction
• Poetry Special 2023
• Unknown & Unseen triannual Issue
• All the Colors special issue
• Emylle on Wheels – web comic
• Holding the Love – a song!
• Introspection quarterly issue
• Sleeper of R’Lyeh – special short issue
• Discovery – quarterly issue
• Smoke – short fiction
• Community – quarterly issue
• Wonder – quarterly issue
• Dreams – quarterly issue
• How an Irreverent Comedy, A Stack of Books, and One Woman Helped to Save My Christian Sanity – an essay
• Exploration – quarterly issue
• Overcoming – triannual issue

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  Breath of Nature – Poetry Special
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  All the World’s a Stage
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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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  Fantasy Fiction Issue – 2024
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  Seafaring/Pirates Special Issue of the MockingOwl Roost
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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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  MockingOwl Creatives Announcement: We’re Opening a Publishing House!
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  MockingOwl Roost Quarterly: Introspection
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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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