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Jennifer Lyn Parsons

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I write fantasy, soft sci-fi, and fairy tales, often with neurodiverse or queer characters. Occasionally, I'll write stories set in our own world.

In addition to working on my own writing, I also run Luna Station Quarterly, an online literary journal devoted to female-identified speculative fiction writers. The Quarterly is the daughter publication of the small publishing company I run, Luna Station Press.

Outside of writing (and its close associate, reading), I'm a software engineer working to make the internet more human-friendly. I can also be found devouring comic books and video games, watching baseball, listening to music, and making things out of wool, paper, and wood. ...more

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	Luna Station Quarterly: Issue 041 by Jennifer Lyn Parsons (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rosemary Melchior, Josie Nuñez 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best of Luna Station Quarterly: The First Five Years by Jennifer Lyn Parsons (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Deborah Bailey (Contributor), Kim Bannerman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Luna Station Quarterly: Issue 038 by Jennifer Lyn Parsons (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Tianna Ebnet, Maria Zoccola (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Take On Me has been my journey. Now it’s your turn to take the next step…

I had originally set out to write a novel about gay werewolves in NYC. I had even written 50,000 words of a first draft during NaNoWriMo years ago. Then I put the book down and basically forgot about it, moving forward with other books while I left that one to marinate.

A couple years later the best cat ever died and I had to learn to be an adult without him. I was struggling and needed some way to

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Leaves of Grass: The First (1855) Edition

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“No, look, there's a blue box. It's bigger on the inside than it is on the outside. It can go anywhere in time and space and sometimes even where it's meant to go. And when it turns up, there's a bloke in it called The Doctor and there will be stuff wrong and he will do his best to sort it out and he will probably succeed 'cause he's awesome. Now sit down, shut up, and watch 'Blink'.”
― Neil Gaiman

tags: doctor-who, science-fiction

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“I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.”
― Thomas Jefferson

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“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.”
― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I Shall Arrive Soon

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“Many native traditions held clowns and tricksters as essential to any contact with the sacred. People could not pray until they had laughed, because laughter opens and frees from rigid preconception. Humans had to have tricksters within the most sacred ceremonies for fear that they forget the sacred comes through upset, reversal, surprise. The trickster in most native traditions is essential to creation, to birth.”
― Byrd Gibbens

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“He was beautiful, that was always affirmed, but his beauty was hard to fix or to see, for he was always glimmering, flickering, melting, mixing, he was the shape of a shapeless flame, he was the eddying thread of needle-shapes in the shapeless mass of the waterfall. He was the invisible wind that hurried the clouds in billows and ribbons. You could see a bare tree on the skyline bent by the wind, holding up twisted branches and bent twigs, and suddenly its formless form would resolve itself into that of the trickster.”
― A. S. Byatt, Ragnarok: The End of the Gods

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