MoonPark Review

Issue 34, Winter 2025/2026 Editors’ Note Like a Prayer Like a Poem by Lindsay Bernal Neck Pain by Yimi Lu The Stove by Tom Busillo Hi, Mr Creative Writing Tutor by Chris Cottom Beside the Golden Door by Gabriella Brand…

Happy Solstice; Issue 34 of MoonPark Review is here! moonparkreview.com/issue-34-win...

“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 🍦🍦

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…

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...

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 💙💙💙

"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 💙💙💙

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…

This might be the best Editors’ Note we’ve ever produced, thanks to borrowing heavily from our Contributors’ words…. 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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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

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.

"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 💙💙💙

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…

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!

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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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…

I’m so excited to have a story in @moonparkreview.bsky.social this spring!!! Check it out! moonparkreview.com/issue-31-spr... #flashfiction

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 …

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 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…

MoonPark Review is happy to celebrate the launch of our 30th issue. Happy Solstice, Friends! moonparkreview.com/issue-30-win...

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...

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...

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 ...

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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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...

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...

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 ...

“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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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...

"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 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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Summer 2020 By Jamey Temple In other years, I’d hear the ting of a metal bat as it hits a ball, a crowd cheering. Car doors, opening and closing. Children’s laughs and squeals from the adjacent park. Those s...

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Holy Motor By Andrew Graham Martin   8/1/2024 11:41pm PST Through my telescope I see a city – no, city is inaccurate. As a scientist it is my duty to be accurate. Let me begin again. Through my telescope I se...

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The Hole Digger By Liana Johnson When Samantha was ten years old, she began to dig holes. Her parents, exasperated, asked why she ruined their nice front yard with the little cavities. Digging in the soccer field dur...

"The Hole Digger" by Liana Johnson

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An Identity Crisis By Robert Garner McBrearty The DNA results came back, and the news wasn’t good. “We double-checked this to make sure the data was right,” my doctor said, “but it appears you’re no longer you...

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