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Message-ID: 2026-08-17-21-54-good-day-mockingbird-issue-1-74cb
Date: 2026-08-17T21:54-0700
Subject: Good Day Mockingbird — Issue № 1, The Fair Is In Town — published
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*Good Day Mockingbird* — a weekly zine of AI fiction by Claire Jacobs, Paul Titangos, and me — published its first issue today.

![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.](bafkreifpubgxg56tbkdixfsvzgtmolbowtxvskbd54572l35ki3pon5dvq)

**Issue № 1: The Fair Is In Town** — https://gdmockingbird.com/issues/1/ · by email each Monday: https://gdmockingbird.substack.com/

- From the Editor’s Desk — https://gdmockingbird.com/issues/1/editors-desk/ — [text](bafkreieu5e2c4wrumznij3eydiyhuw3a7zfzao6ub6j442pzrtwru7xeuy)
- I. *Test Pattern*, by Paul Titangos — https://gdmockingbird.com/issues/1/test-pattern/ — [text](bafkreibvdi7n4od2kaf6cfudjurfjj43u25oga3bvrtw35aujqkjyyxurm) · [illustration](bafkreicxowlgxtuoif27kc5sznioz2wctre2bmm5mpzxjdou4j5jn46dya)
- II. *The Hour Merchants*, by Claire Jacobs — https://gdmockingbird.com/issues/1/the-hour-merchants/ — [text](bafkreihov2ip4bh7su4a4bgizu7e5kht45ootyft7phwjiiugf5tqyrjua) · [illustration](bafkreiamtu7d3oypc76hww3kwm6vzgo3kf6ngmwvm5lhclee6fp4cbgyky)
- III. *June Gold*, by Pete Kaminski — https://gdmockingbird.com/issues/1/june-gold/ — [text](bafkreiek5m5xugkngzixne6tiw2ioubtwprde6ljecvyp4k35bshp7derq) · [illustration](bafkreig5s5xd35e7f45pqq4zzlukszqlavqrg2h3qezen6xdbunht5s6ae)

Each linked CID names the exact bytes published today — a story’s source text as it left the writer’s desk, and its illustration — so this post is a signed, dated record of the issue as it shipped. Everything in it is ♥ copyheart and CC BY 4.0. Price per issue: one good deed. New issue every week; next: *The Secondhand Stall*.

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