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  • A dark and gray cloudy sky with a small opening of light shining through. God builds me Text: A smiling god, Linette rabsatt, poetry

    A Smiling God

    I’m intrinsically focused
    on being a better me
    and as God builds me
    I know he must enjoy comedy
    Like these “thick of it” situations
    my constant innovations
    and big time preparations
    and then the plan changes
    I know he smiles
    as I think I know it all

  • An open bible page with a wooden cross in the middle held together by twine. Apostles Text: The Gospel According to St. Vitaphile, Nick Cooke, Poetry

    The Gospel According to St. Vitaphile, in Six Verses

    Unless you’re a believer in reincarnation you’d be advised to accept life’s biggest cliché about how it’s no rehearsal or primordial dream…

  • Dark green background with a book cover in teal dominating the foreground to the right. TEXT: Zina Mona, Book Review, The Locked Ward

    The Locked Ward, a Psychological Thriller Review

    Estranged from birth, Mandy had believed she was an only child until she receives a call from a lawyer urging her to visit his infamous client. In the locked ward, Georgia Cartwright utters only four words to her sister: “I didn’t do it.”

  • A pirate in the shadows against a cement wall, waiting, lurking... TEXT: Don't Assault a Woman with Dead Pirates for Friends - Laura Nelson - Fiction

    Don’t Assault a Woman with Dead Pirates for Friends

    An icy breeze blew down the back of his neck and shirt in an instant, and Billy pivoted on one foot. There they were: The pirates — he had no other word for them…

  • A scenery of nature from the side of the road. brawny earth Text: Morning Rains, NC Maha, Poetry

    Morning Rains

    I swerve and swing down tar road glens — poplar built, storm-breath wet that brim with bark and coffee, melt fjords that flood Earth’s marrow…

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January 24, 2021
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January 15, 2021
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We proudly present the First Issue of the MockingOwl Roost – Expectation. Enjoy short fiction, serialized fiction, essays, poetry, lyrics, and visual artwork in this issue, […]
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