Celebrating Winter with new content and a new print magazine!
Twenty-five years after the first moocat.net, we have finally created a print magazine to go along with every web-based issue, starting now. You can order yours here.
The entries in this issue truly are gentle moos “From Round the Globe”:
- Featuring writers and artists from Spain, the UK, Barbados, Hungary, India, Japan, Sudan, Sumatra, even a few from the USA!
- Three entirely new travelogs, all written by new contributors.
- Five new essays and 4 new writers, variations on the issue’s theme.
- Three outstanding collections of art from one O.G. art contributor; an award-winning, up-and-coming painter; and a professional photographer with an amazing eye.
- Ten new poems: 3 by an O.G. poet, and 7 from poets new to the mag.
- And finally, 3 new comedy pieces, from one O.G. comedy writer and two brand-new comic voices!
Please enjoy the 25-Year-Anniversary moocat.net relaunch issue!
| Creator | Piece Name(s) | Description |
|---|---|---|
| ESSAYS | ||
| (Starving the Beast) | ||
| Moocat le Meaux | Starving the Beast | Is life without Facebook possible? Should it be? |
| Diana Parrilla | What the Algorithm Gave Me, and What It Took | A conflicted look at modern romance and the addictive digital simulation that produced it. |
| Dira Wiranti | Rice Fields and the Digital Loom | A writer from Sumatra considers connections to digital and physical place. |
| Christopher Morales | The Small Good of Staying Reachable | There is something restful about not knowing what one thinks yet. |
| Pravy Jha | Does It Sit on the Branches for a While? | A truly lovely memoir and meditation on ways of seeing, from an exciting new writer from India. |
| POETRY | ||
| Rodger Kamenetz | Three Prose Poems by Rodger Kamenetz | Delighted to present three new prose poems by the celebrated poet and author. |
| Jonathan Chibuike Ukah | Faces of London | A rollicking, impressionistic fugue of a morning London commute. |
| Josh Pearce | The Boss | Workplace pulse comes from whose bilge-pump heart, / whose office consumes my thoughts. |
| Lorraine Schein | Two Poems by Lorraine Schein | I was sleeping when a poem crept onto my pillow / and whispered in my ear, “Write me...” |
| Carol Barrett | June 21, 2025 | The sun spoons into dark soil. / The sun, eclipsed behind a terrified cloud. |
| Ann Youmans | Two Poems by Ann Youmans | The prickle of winter on my skin / followed by the clatter of snow shovels, / quick inhales of pointy air |
| TRAVELOGS | ||
| Robert Witmer | The Road Before Me | Back in the middle 1970s ... the old Everest Base Camp at Gorak Shep, one could walk for days meeting only the local people. |
| Zary Fekete | Singapore Dawn | A traveler awakens to find an unforgettable scene in early morning Singapore. |
| Chandreyee Chakraborty | The Packing of Small Things | Looking at it, I cannot help but think time must move differently for water. |
| COMEDY | ||
| Max Burbank | Orange Crush | A comic memoir from the depth of the Covid era, from an O.G. contributor’s My Covid Diary series. |
| Michael Fowler | Show Your Neanderthal Pride, People! | Announcing a New Day of Remembrance for a small percentage of all of us. |
| M.D. Smith IV | The Most Inconvenient Midnight Ride in History | In honor of America’s 250th: Revere’s revered ride... possibly. |
| ART | ||
| Mahmoud Elmardi | Paintings, by Mahmoud Elmardi | “... there is no distinction between my brush and my pen, as both serve to delve into the depths of the human psyche.” |
| Leslie St. John | This Is My Island In The Sun... | “On an island just 166 square miles... it might be hard to believe there are still wild places. But they exist...” |
| John Guillory | Drawings and Paintings, by John Guillory | “To me, a drawing feels like an old hand-written letter that conveys a lost intimate understanding of an event, a person, a scene.” |