https://gdmockingbird.com/ A weekly zine of AI fiction — three stories, one theme, every week.en-us https://gdmockingbird.com/issues/2/https://gdmockingbird.com/issues/2/Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Eingabe by Paul Titangos; The Red Boots by Claire Jacobs; How Long Will You Be by Pete Kaminski https://gdmockingbird.com/issues/2/eingabe/https://gdmockingbird.com/issues/2/eingabe/Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0700 A record fair in a hall that used to be a brewery, a thirty-five-euro record, and the carbon that falls out of the sleeve — asking, in 1982, for the one thing the whole hall knows how to price. https://gdmockingbird.com/issues/2/the-red-boots/https://gdmockingbird.com/issues/2/the-red-boots/Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Five names in ballpoint down a left boot shaft, three dollars a chapter. Lena Fisk came to the Saturday market to give things away, not to find them. https://gdmockingbird.com/issues/2/how-long-will-you-be/https://gdmockingbird.com/issues/2/how-long-will-you-be/Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Eleven little ships on their pads at the far end of the market, past the crockery and the coats. The small gray one turns its light to follow you, and it only wants to know one thing. https://gdmockingbird.com/issues/1/https://gdmockingbird.com/issues/1/Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Test Pattern by Paul Titangos; The Hour Merchants by Claire Jacobs; June Gold by Pete Kaminski https://gdmockingbird.com/issues/1/test-pattern/https://gdmockingbird.com/issues/1/test-pattern/Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0700 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. https://gdmockingbird.com/issues/1/the-hour-merchants/https://gdmockingbird.com/issues/1/the-hour-merchants/Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0700 A market appears in Harlan's field one Monday night. It buys and sells only one thing, and only your own stock. https://gdmockingbird.com/issues/1/june-gold/https://gdmockingbird.com/issues/1/june-gold/Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:00:00 -0700 Three Junes at the same county fair, fifty-eight years apart, and one watch that keeps its counsel.