Everyone loves a roaring fireplace during the Holiday season. Please enjoy this #nonfiction #FirePlaceForYourHome by #clslorenzosandoval #mockingowlroost #blog #holidaynonfiction #writer #writerscommunity
https://www.mockingowlroost.com/blog/fireplace-for-your-home/
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Fireplace for Your Home
Opening scene: close-up on a fireplace. So hyper-real we could almost feel the embers and we could certainly see and hear it crackling. The extreme close-up lingered. We sat watching for several minutes. Evelyn was enraptured.
The MockingOwl RoostThere is nothing so exhilarating as being called back after a particularly hard audition. This is spoken from experience. Please enjoy #TheCallBack by #clslorenzosandoval Sandoval (page 21) #mockingowlroost #triannualissue #UnexpectedDelights #nonfiction #writer #writerscommunity #creativenonfiction
https://www.mockingowlroost.com/blog/unexpected-delights-triannual/
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Triannual: Unexpected Delights
Please enjoy Unexpected Delights, a beautifully themed issue of the MockingOwl Roost.
The MockingOwl RoostMonday night is the perfect night for poetry, and family. Please enjoy #AsAnAdoptee by #CLSLorenzoSandoval (page 10) #mockingowlroost #overcoming #triannualissue #Poetry #poetrycommunity #poetrylovers
https://www.mockingowlroost.com/blog/overcoming-triannual/
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Overcoming – Triannual Issue
May you find encouragement to face your own trials, commiserate in your own struggles, and generally just enjoy these works by the gifted authors and artists the world over.
The MockingOwl RoostSunday is a wonderful day for our souls to take flight . Please enjoy this #nonfiction , #TiffanyTakesFlight by #CLSLorenzoSandoval. #mockingowlroost #blog #nonfictionwriter #writerscommunity #writer
https://www.mockingowlroost.com/blog/parasailing-tiffany-takes-flight/
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Tiffany Takes Flight
We couldn’t wait to fly off the shore over the Pacific, free from the worries of the land…
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My Brown-Skinned Girl
I tell her that her brown skin comes from her birth mommy who trusted me enough to adopt her. I remind her that she shares a culture with her auntie Shaunte who she loves.
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When I Met Your Birth Mother
I paced as my mind went back and forth from confident to full of doubt. It was only an hour but felt simultaneously like five minutes and like a year.
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