Everyone loves a roaring fireplace during the Holiday season. Please enjoy this #nonfiction #FirePlaceForYourHome by #clslorenzosandoval #mockingowlroost #blog #holidaynonfiction #writer #writerscommunity

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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.

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There 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.

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Monday 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.

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Sunday 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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We start the day with a work of #nonfiction. Please enjoy #MyBrownSkinnedGirl by #CLSLorenzoSandoval. #mockingowlroost #blog #creativenonfiction #writer #writerscommunity

https://www.mockingowlroost.com/blog/my-brown-skinned-girl/
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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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We close the weekend with nonfiction. Please enjoy #WhenIMetYourBirthMother by #CLSLorenzoSandoval. #mockingowlroost #nonfiction #writer #writerscommunity

https://www.mockingowlroost.com/blog/when-i-met-your-birth-mother/
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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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