MoonPark Review
@moonparkreview.bsky.social
a quarterly journal of short prose
Editors: Mary Lynn Reed and Lesley C. Weston
https://moonparkreview.com
Editors: Mary Lynn Reed and Lesley C. Weston
https://moonparkreview.com
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“The handful who didn’t formed their own religion, eventually declaring it wrong to eat ice cream.”
Just brilliant! Read @willmusgrove.bsky.social @moonparkreview.bsky.social 🍦🍦
Just brilliant! Read @willmusgrove.bsky.social @moonparkreview.bsky.social 🍦🍦
Honored to be back in @moonparkreview.bsky.social with a story about a giant ice cream sandwich in the sky. Check it out. And thanks to Mary Lynn and Lesley for giving this one such an awesome home! 🍦 🍨
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The Ice Cream Sandwich in the Sky
By Will Musgrove It took a few days to figure out what was floating in the sky. It wasn’t until I looked up at the miles-long object, my mind slack like someone staring at a Magic Eye poster, and s…
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June 20, 2025 at 3:19 PM
“The handful who didn’t formed their own religion, eventually declaring it wrong to eat ice cream.”
Just brilliant! Read @willmusgrove.bsky.social @moonparkreview.bsky.social 🍦🍦
Just brilliant! Read @willmusgrove.bsky.social @moonparkreview.bsky.social 🍦🍦
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So wonderful to be in the new issue of @moonparkreview.bsky.social today with some fast food romance. Hope you like it 🍔 💜 moonparkreview.com/issue-32-sum...
The Best First Date I’ve Ever Had
By Chris Scott He chose the place, so right off the bat that was a relief. No tedious back-and-forth or awkward negotiation or anything. The restaurant he picked was funny: The Hardee’s in Bartonvi…
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June 20, 2025 at 3:20 PM
So wonderful to be in the new issue of @moonparkreview.bsky.social today with some fast food romance. Hope you like it 🍔 💜 moonparkreview.com/issue-32-sum...
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I love MoonPark, and I'm honored to be in the journal again along with a bunch of amazing writers 🌙
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June 20, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I love MoonPark, and I'm honored to be in the journal again along with a bunch of amazing writers 🌙
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"A mere thirty seconds later, Anna sneezed again. Given the short time between sneezes, I did not again say 'Bless you!'"
Big love for this gem by @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @moonparkreview.bsky.social 💙💙💙
Big love for this gem by @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @moonparkreview.bsky.social 💙💙💙
I have a new story in @moonparkreview.bsky.social! Many thanks to @marylynnreed.bsky.social and Lesley C. Weston for publishing this oddball about sneezing/ "common courtesy."
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Body and Soul
By Kim Magowan My wife was pissed at me because when she sneezed, I did not say “Bless you!” For context: she was downstairs, I was upstairs. It was the second time in rapid succession that Anna sn…
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June 20, 2025 at 6:10 PM
"A mere thirty seconds later, Anna sneezed again. Given the short time between sneezes, I did not again say 'Bless you!'"
Big love for this gem by @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @moonparkreview.bsky.social 💙💙💙
Big love for this gem by @kimmagowan.bsky.social in @moonparkreview.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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"Most of us agreed to act as if there weren’t a massive ice cream sandwich in the sky. The handful who didn’t formed their own religion, eventually declaring it wrong to eat ice cream."
I love this story (so many stellar lines!) by @willmusgrove.bsky.social in @moonparkreview.bsky.social 💙💙💙
I love this story (so many stellar lines!) by @willmusgrove.bsky.social in @moonparkreview.bsky.social 💙💙💙
Honored to be back in @moonparkreview.bsky.social with a story about a giant ice cream sandwich in the sky. Check it out. And thanks to Mary Lynn and Lesley for giving this one such an awesome home! 🍦 🍨
moonparkreview.com/issue-32-sum...
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The Ice Cream Sandwich in the Sky
By Will Musgrove It took a few days to figure out what was floating in the sky. It wasn’t until I looked up at the miles-long object, my mind slack like someone staring at a Magic Eye poster, and s…
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June 20, 2025 at 6:23 PM
"Most of us agreed to act as if there weren’t a massive ice cream sandwich in the sky. The handful who didn’t formed their own religion, eventually declaring it wrong to eat ice cream."
I love this story (so many stellar lines!) by @willmusgrove.bsky.social in @moonparkreview.bsky.social 💙💙💙
I love this story (so many stellar lines!) by @willmusgrove.bsky.social in @moonparkreview.bsky.social 💙💙💙
This might be the best Editors’ Note we’ve ever produced, thanks to borrowing heavily from our Contributors’ words…. moonparkreview.com/issue-32-sum...
Editors’ Note
June 20, 2025 Dear Friends, We love curating the stories and prose poems for this journal but in these strange and disheartening times, it is getting hard to write pithy editors’ notes. So we’ll le…
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June 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
This might be the best Editors’ Note we’ve ever produced, thanks to borrowing heavily from our Contributors’ words…. moonparkreview.com/issue-32-sum...
Happy Solstice! MoonPark Review Issue 32 is Here!!! moonparkreview.com/issue-32-sum...
Issue 32, Summer 2025
Editors’ Note The Ice Cream Sandwich in the Sky by Will Musgrove Worse by Jason R. Chun Gimme Back Times Square by Nathaniel Lachenmeyer to god: by Evelyn Pae Calendar Disorder by Trevor Full…
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June 20, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Today's listing of the day is: MoonPark Review #WritingCommunity
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Lila smells like vanilla and limes. She has one blue eye and one brown eye. She has three brothers and two sisters and a cat. She sings when it’s raining out and makes me want to sing too
Touching reimagination of what we would sacrifice for ❤️ @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @moonparkreview.bsky.social
Touching reimagination of what we would sacrifice for ❤️ @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @moonparkreview.bsky.social
I’m so excited to have a story in @moonparkreview.bsky.social this spring!!! Check it out! moonparkreview.com/issue-31-spr... #flashfiction
Stupid Girl
By Emily Rinkema My friend Lila’s heart broke so I gave her mine and now, two weeks later, I wait for her to visit, watching the trams go by my window and ignoring my mother who walks in and out of…
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March 21, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Lila smells like vanilla and limes. She has one blue eye and one brown eye. She has three brothers and two sisters and a cat. She sings when it’s raining out and makes me want to sing too
Touching reimagination of what we would sacrifice for ❤️ @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @moonparkreview.bsky.social
Touching reimagination of what we would sacrifice for ❤️ @emilyrinkema.bsky.social @moonparkreview.bsky.social
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I'm so happy to have a poem in the new issue of @moonparkreview.bsky.social! This is a special one, and I love the art they paired with it.
Issue 31 of MoonPark Review is here. Celebrate the Spring Equinox by reading the 13 fantastic new prose gems in Issue 31! moonparkreview.com/issue-31-spr...
Issue 31, Spring 2025
Editors’ Note It Was Never About Pink by Nora Ray What They Don’t Understand Is, Getting Used to the Pronouns is the Hardest Part by Dawn Tasaka Steffler How to Be a Better Sisyphus by …
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March 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I'm so happy to have a poem in the new issue of @moonparkreview.bsky.social! This is a special one, and I love the art they paired with it.
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"When we put baggy black jeans and khaki hoodies on in the middle of the summer, it was not about us being cold. It was the armor we finally had."
Wow. This extraordinary piece of writing by @noraraywrites.bsky.social in @moonparkreview.bsky.social 💙💙💙
Wow. This extraordinary piece of writing by @noraraywrites.bsky.social in @moonparkreview.bsky.social 💙💙💙
IT WAS NEVER ABOUT PINK is out there in the 31th issue of
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It Was Never About Pink
by Nora Ray When we took our mothers’ scissors and furiously cut our short pastel pink skirts into tiny pieces, it was not about the skirts. It was unwanted compliments that we put on the bottom of…
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March 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM
"When we put baggy black jeans and khaki hoodies on in the middle of the summer, it was not about us being cold. It was the armor we finally had."
Wow. This extraordinary piece of writing by @noraraywrites.bsky.social in @moonparkreview.bsky.social 💙💙💙
Wow. This extraordinary piece of writing by @noraraywrites.bsky.social in @moonparkreview.bsky.social 💙💙💙
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Thanks to EICs Mary Lynn and Lesley and @moonparkreview.bsky.social for giving another one of my stories about parenting queer kids such a wonderful home.
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What They Don’t Understand Is, Getting Used to the Pronouns is the Hardest Part
By Dawn Tasaka Steffler Recently, when they leave the house, they sneak out, even in the middle of the day. And I know why; they don’t want me to see them wearing the cropped, lilac tank top…
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March 20, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Thanks to EICs Mary Lynn and Lesley and @moonparkreview.bsky.social for giving another one of my stories about parenting queer kids such a wonderful home.
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"I quote her to whoever is with me. I plant myself more deeply when others slip away. I keep hoping it’s still possible to win."
Love this piece ("My Grandma Taught Me Never To Leave Until It’s Over") by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social in this new @moonparkreview.bsky.social issue!
Love this piece ("My Grandma Taught Me Never To Leave Until It’s Over") by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social in this new @moonparkreview.bsky.social issue!
Issue 31 of MoonPark Review is here. Celebrate the Spring Equinox by reading the 13 fantastic new prose gems in Issue 31! moonparkreview.com/issue-31-spr...
Issue 31, Spring 2025
Editors’ Note It Was Never About Pink by Nora Ray What They Don’t Understand Is, Getting Used to the Pronouns is the Hardest Part by Dawn Tasaka Steffler How to Be a Better Sisyphus by …
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March 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
"I quote her to whoever is with me. I plant myself more deeply when others slip away. I keep hoping it’s still possible to win."
Love this piece ("My Grandma Taught Me Never To Leave Until It’s Over") by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social in this new @moonparkreview.bsky.social issue!
Love this piece ("My Grandma Taught Me Never To Leave Until It’s Over") by @katiemanningpoet.bsky.social in this new @moonparkreview.bsky.social issue!
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I’m so excited to have a story in @moonparkreview.bsky.social this spring!!! Check it out! moonparkreview.com/issue-31-spr... #flashfiction
Stupid Girl
By Emily Rinkema My friend Lila’s heart broke so I gave her mine and now, two weeks later, I wait for her to visit, watching the trams go by my window and ignoring my mother who walks in and out of…
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March 20, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I’m so excited to have a story in @moonparkreview.bsky.social this spring!!! Check it out! moonparkreview.com/issue-31-spr... #flashfiction
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IT WAS NEVER ABOUT PINK is out there in the 31th issue of
@moonparkreview.bsky.social 🩷
moonparkreview.com/issue-31-spr...
@moonparkreview.bsky.social 🩷
moonparkreview.com/issue-31-spr...
It Was Never About Pink
by Nora Ray When we took our mothers’ scissors and furiously cut our short pastel pink skirts into tiny pieces, it was not about the skirts. It was unwanted compliments that we put on the bottom of…
moonparkreview.com
March 20, 2025 at 2:16 PM
IT WAS NEVER ABOUT PINK is out there in the 31th issue of
@moonparkreview.bsky.social 🩷
moonparkreview.com/issue-31-spr...
@moonparkreview.bsky.social 🩷
moonparkreview.com/issue-31-spr...
Issue 31 of MoonPark Review is here. Celebrate the Spring Equinox by reading the 13 fantastic new prose gems in Issue 31! moonparkreview.com/issue-31-spr...
Issue 31, Spring 2025
Editors’ Note It Was Never About Pink by Nora Ray What They Don’t Understand Is, Getting Used to the Pronouns is the Hardest Part by Dawn Tasaka Steffler How to Be a Better Sisyphus by …
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March 20, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Issue 31 of MoonPark Review is here. Celebrate the Spring Equinox by reading the 13 fantastic new prose gems in Issue 31! moonparkreview.com/issue-31-spr...
MoonPark Review is happy to celebrate the launch of our 30th issue. Happy Solstice, Friends! moonparkreview.com/issue-30-win...
Issue 30, Winter 2024/2025
Editors’ Note The Witch and the Spaceship by Allison Wyss Wounds by Andrew Roe I Could Tell You This is My Earliest Memory by Donna Cameron How to Care For the Dying by Sian M. Jones My Dolly…
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December 21, 2024 at 11:04 AM
MoonPark Review is happy to celebrate the launch of our 30th issue. Happy Solstice, Friends! moonparkreview.com/issue-30-win...
Spring has sprung, and that means a new issue of MoonPark Review is here; we think it’s sort of fabulous…. Hope you enjoy! moonparkreview.com/issue-27-spr...
Issue 27, Spring 2024
Editors' Note Glory and Éclat by J. D. Strunk Bango Mango by David Riessen Easy by Jennifer Wortman A Becoming Stole by Ryan Kristopher Jory I Am Cast Into the Multiverse by Terri Linn Davis and Danie...
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March 20, 2024 at 10:51 AM
Spring has sprung, and that means a new issue of MoonPark Review is here; we think it’s sort of fabulous…. Hope you enjoy! moonparkreview.com/issue-27-spr...
Today is the Solstice, and tonight, the longest night of the year. On this day we are pleased to bestow to each of you a gift – 13 of them, in fact – and a little advice.
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Editors’ Note
December 21, 2023 Greetings, Friends, ‘Tis the season, as they say, for a variety of holiday festivities. In America, at least, many of us still in the workforce don’t get a lot of time-off, even ...
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December 21, 2023 at 10:32 PM
Today is the Solstice, and tonight, the longest night of the year. On this day we are pleased to bestow to each of you a gift – 13 of them, in fact – and a little advice.
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Happy Solstice, Friends! Issue 26 of MoonPark Review is here. Take a moment and give yourself the gift of reading some amazing new fiction and prose poetry on this, the longest night of the year. moonparkreview.com/issue-26-win...
Issue 26, Winter 2023/2024
Editors' Note Dark Branches by Tim Goldstone Pink, Blue, Yellow, Green by Alice Kinerk The Little Bell by David Osgood Drowning by Carla Sarett Destiny's Turn by Joe Giordano Sandy by Michael Fowler Y...
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December 21, 2023 at 1:39 PM
Happy Solstice, Friends! Issue 26 of MoonPark Review is here. Take a moment and give yourself the gift of reading some amazing new fiction and prose poetry on this, the longest night of the year. moonparkreview.com/issue-26-win...
Our 2024 Pushcart Prize nominations are here! Help us say congrats & good luck to our fabulous nominees. moonparkreview.com/awards/our-n...
December 2, 2023 at 3:15 AM
Our 2024 Pushcart Prize nominations are here! Help us say congrats & good luck to our fabulous nominees. moonparkreview.com/awards/our-n...
“It’s hard to believe this is our 25th issue of MoonPark Review. Most days, we still feel young and full of editorial aspiration, even though, as online literary journals go, we’ve been around the block quite a few times.”
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Editors’ Note
September 23, 2023 Dear Readers, It’s hard to believe this is our 25th issue of MoonPark Review. Most days, we still feel young and full of editorial aspiration, even though, as online literary ...
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October 15, 2023 at 11:50 PM
“It’s hard to believe this is our 25th issue of MoonPark Review. Most days, we still feel young and full of editorial aspiration, even though, as online literary journals go, we’ve been around the block quite a few times.”
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Our 2024 Best of the Net nominations are here! Help us say congrats & good luck to our fabulous nominees.
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September 25, 2023 at 12:51 PM
Our 2024 Best of the Net nominations are here! Help us say congrats & good luck to our fabulous nominees.
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"COMPLAINT ALLEGING VIOLATION OF U.C.C. § 2-201 AND SEEKING PRELIMINARY AND PERMANENT INJUNCTIVE RELIEF" by Nico Montoya (@nicomontoya.bsky.social) moonparkreview.com/issue-25-fal...
COMPLAINT ALLEGING VIOLATION OF U.C.C. § 2-201 AND SEEKING PRELIMINARY AND PERMANENT INJUNCTIVE REL...
By Nico Montoya COMES NOW, the Plaintiff, through the undersigned counsel and unto this Honorable Court, most respectfully avers: That SRA. GLORIA MARTINEZ (“Plaintiff”) is a law-abiding U.S. Citi...
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September 24, 2023 at 3:06 PM
"COMPLAINT ALLEGING VIOLATION OF U.C.C. § 2-201 AND SEEKING PRELIMINARY AND PERMANENT INJUNCTIVE RELIEF" by Nico Montoya (@nicomontoya.bsky.social) moonparkreview.com/issue-25-fal...
"Sibling Rivalry" by Nan Wigington moonparkreview.com/issue-25-fal...
Sibling Rivalry
By Nan Wigington Our mother loves animals, all kinds, big and hairy, slim and smooth, howling, purring, clucking. They come; they ravage; they leave a scar, a seed. The scars stay forever. The seeds b...
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September 24, 2023 at 3:01 PM
"Sibling Rivalry" by Nan Wigington moonparkreview.com/issue-25-fal...