Good Day Mockingbird
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 carnival on a Nebraska main street, a market in Harlan’s field, a county fair in the second week of June. Three fairs come to town. All three of them leave.

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

A carnival sideshow on a prairie field at golden hour — a red-and-white tent, a painted banner reading ALIVE, LIVIN AND BREATHIN over panels for the Fat Lady and the Five-Legged Cow; in the foreground a Holstein cow, and a woman in a gold gown standing with her back to us; silos and a barn behind.
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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.
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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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