Jennifer Lyn Parsons

You come to Luna Station Quarterly for good stories. We are grateful for that, and for you.Yes, you.Who can follow along when things get timey-wimey, who do not flinch when grief needs its space, who embrace magick and wonder and transmutation and alternate realities with aplomb, who still believe in monsters and witches and aliens and dinosaurs, and who most of all are not afraid at this late hour to read about love in all of its permutations.You are who we do this for, year in and year out, season after season.Welcome to The Station. May you leave, if you must, larger than you came in. This issue features: "37 Seconds to Say Goodbye" by R. J. Howell"Cry to the Moon" by Keira Perkins"Monstrous Attractions" by Cindy Phan"Resurrecting Tessa" by Nicole Walsh"To the Moon and Back" by Emmie Christie"Brave Stupid Creatures" by Mac Bowers"Victory and Vanilla" by Hesper Leveret"Be Not Afraid of the Angel beneath the Stairs" by Sara Playfair"Secrets Locked in Metal Scrap" by Marie Croke"Sue Dhingra's Cat" by Shikhandin"Grown From an Alder Wolf's Skull" by Anna Madden"Date Night" by Alex T. Singer"Butterflies Eating the Dead" by Alice Loweecey"Close Encounters" by Emi Macuaga"Everything is Idaho" by Eliza Sullivan"The Cierin-Croin" by Wendy Nikel"Thistle and Spice" by Dorianne Emmerton"Homoncula" by Neva Bryan

If you had told us fifteen years ago, when LSQ was a one-woman operation running on a steady diet of "wouldn't it be cool if", that we would attract authors and stories as good as these, we would have been very pleased indeed These stories are deep.They are full of hard earned human emotions, in spite of their fantastical settings. Ghosts and goblins and living houses and fairy tales and the underworld are all great, but if they don't get under your skin, and maybe even draw some blood from time to time, then what's the point, at this late hour? So please accept our latest invitation to the greatest show in speculative literature, as we all change and evolve and become our next selves, together. Featuring"Sojourner" by Esther Alter"And Lilith Sewed the Seam" by Allister Nelson"Regarding Your Application to This Year's Orpheus Fellowship" by Anna-Claire McGrath"Lost in Target" by Camden Rose"How to Carry a Millstone" by Katie McIvor"Who We Are" by Ana Wesley"Bedtime Story" by Rhonda Parrish"Grief in C Minor" by Erin Keating"Open Your Eyes" by Allie Marini"You and Me, Here and There, Now and Then and When" by JM Cyrus"The Fish Who Dreamt of Dragons" by Lilia Zhang"Souls on the Open Plane" by Remy Welch"The Illusionist's Daughter" by Wen Wen Yang"The Angelus Machine" by Emily Yu"Cedar Glen" by Alicia Adams"Lost Souls" by Rae Maybee"A Pound of Flesh" by K R Samp

Stories matter. No matter the season. They are windows. They are mirrors. They are elemental. At Luna Station Quarterly, we publish stories that you might not be seeing elsewhere. Unique permutations on science fiction & fantasy, mythology & folk tale, all written by emerging women writers. Sweet stories. Sad stories. Queer stories. Family stories. Magical stories. Adventure stories. Imaginary friends. Robots. Pirates. Ghouls and golems and even a goddamned stagecoach Issue 35 of LSQ has it all

Elegy and promise stand side by side in this, the thirty fourth issue of your favorite Quarterly. Eight talented authors once again give you glimpses of worlds both familiar and alien, moving backwards and forwards in time and space, from Louisiana & Chicago, to a dusty settlement and abandoned house that bring new flavors to our tired notions of the apocalypse. The women and girls in these stories, like the authors that created them, are balancing old and new, grudges and hope, life and death. May we all learn from their journeys, their wisdom, and their folly.