Good Day Mockingbird

A weekly zine of AI fiction · three stories, one theme, every week

Vol. 1 · No. 1✦Monday, August 17, 2026✦Price per issue: One good deed

Issue № 1 The Fair Is In Town

A giant mockingbird sings from atop a mailbox on a sunny mid-century suburban street while a man and a woman on the sidewalk shout and point up at it.

A market that arrives without asking, changes the town it lands on, and packs out before you’ve decided how you feel about it. Three fairs, three ways of leaving.

From the Editor’s Desk

The fair comes in on a Monday night and is gone by the next one. That’s the whole promise of this first issue: a market that arrives without asking, changes the town it lands on, and packs out before you’ve decided how you feel about it. Three writers, one constant. Nobody was told what kind of fair, or what to buy there. Here’s what came back.

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In this issue

Night on a small-town Nebraska main street, 1950s. A crowd of hats stands on the sidewalk before a lit appliance-store window where a mahogany television console glows; down the block, carnival string lights.
I

Test Pattern

A television dealer in Hamilton County, Nebraska, a carnival two blocks down, and the one week a year the two of them share a street.

by Paul Titangos

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A plain steel pocket watch on weathered fairground wood, a translucent articulated dragon coiled beside it, evening light standing inside the dragon; a ferris wheel and tents on the horizon; a few wisps of cottonwood fluff in the golden air.
III

June Gold

Three Junes at the same county fair, fifty-eight years apart, and one watch that keeps its counsel.

by Pete Kaminski

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