Luna Station Quarterly

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. - Toni Morrison

2026-03-15 18:50:40 UTC

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear. - Judy Blume

2026-02-20 18:50:42 UTC

I have a huge and savage conscience that won't let me get away with things. - Octavia E. Butler

2026-01-06 06:50:44 UTC

The great thing about fantasy is that you can drag dreams and longings and hopes and fears and strivings out of your subconscious and call them 'magic' or 'dragons' or 'faeries' and get to know them better. But then I write the stuff. Obviously I'm prejudiced. - Robin McKinley

2025-12-31 12:51:00 UTC

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear. - Judy Blume

2025-12-17 06:50:45 UTC

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day I can hear her breathing. - Arundhati Roy

2025-11-29 00:50:49 UTC

There have been great societies that didn't use the wheel, but there've been no societies that did not tell stories. - Ursula K. Le Guin

2025-11-08 00:52:55 UTC

The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time. - Mary Oliver

2025-11-06 00:50:44 UTC

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. - Anna Quindlen

2025-11-02 00:50:44 UTC

Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. - Mary Oliver

2025-11-01 00:50:45 UTC

Attention without feeling. . . is only a report. - Mary Oliver

2025-10-21 18:50:45 UTC

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home. - Anna Quindlen

2025-10-05 18:50:47 UTC

People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel. - Maya Angelou

2025-08-22 00:50:40 UTC

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. - Anne Herbert

2025-08-16 06:50:40 UTC

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. - Angela Carter

2025-07-06 18:50:42 UTC

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. - Maya Angelou

2025-06-21 18:52:51 UTC

There have been great societies that didn't use the wheel, but there've been no societies that did not tell stories. - Ursula K. Le Guin

2025-06-17 18:52:57 UTC

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. - Virginia Woolf

2025-05-12 02:02:51 UTC

Been missing connecting with you all while juggling new job + Luna Station! Our June issue goes live soon (21 stories!), and we've got 7 new editors! Can't wait to share more on all the exciting things going on.
#LunaStation #SFF

2025-05-11 12:51:02 UTC

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. - Angela Carter

2025-05-11 00:50:46 UTC

And now you'll be telling stories of my coming back, and they won't be false, and they won't be true, but they'll be real. - Mary Oliver

2025-04-24 00:50:48 UTC

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. - Virginia Woolf

2025-04-13 18:50:54 UTC

Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage. - Anaïs Nin

2025-04-10 00:52:02 UTC

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. - Anne Herbert

2025-04-02 18:50:50 UTC

If you can imagine something, it will be. - N. K. Jemisin

2025-03-31 18:50:52 UTC

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives. - Toni Morrison

2025-03-17 12:50:49 UTC

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. - Anne Herbert

2025-03-06 16:00:18 UTC

Digital editions of our double issue are live!
392 pages of SFF goodness by women-identified authors, available through Weightless, Gumroad and Payhip for $2.99. And yes, they're completely DRM-free because I believe you should actually OWN what you buy.
Seriously, this issue is massive!
https://www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/061
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2025-02-07 13:00:06 UTC

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind. - Virginia Woolf

2025-01-10 13:00:04 UTC

Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world. - Jeanette Winterson

2024-12-30 00:59:40 UTC

Life shrinks or expands according to one’s courage. - Anaïs Nin

2024-12-22 19:00:01 UTC

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they? - Virginia Woolf

2024-12-15 17:43:07 UTC

Submissions are now open for our June issue! https://duotrope.com/duosuma/submit/luna-station-quarterly-ehWK6
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2024-12-02 19:01:22 UTC

The new issue is out! These are stories of opposites, of contradictions. Of transitions and unexpected guests. Most of all, they are stories of courage in the face of uncertainties. We need stories like this.
https://www.lunastationquarterly.com/issues/060
A small note:
Due to the holiday, our Amazon-hosted offerings (print edition & kindle) are delayed. We expect them to be live in the next day or so.
Watch our website and socials for updates!
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2024-11-23 13:00:20 UTC

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal. - Toni Morrison

2024-11-23 06:59:58 UTC

Progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated, and reimagined if it is to survive. - Zadie Smith

2024-11-22 13:05:25 UTC

Delete the adjectives and you’ll have the facts. - Harper Lee

2024-11-18 13:00:12 UTC

Libraries will get you through times of no money better than money will get you through times of no libraries. - Anne Herbert

2024-11-08 19:02:01 UTC

Progress is never permanent, will always be threatened, must be redoubled, restated, and reimagined if it is to survive. - Zadie Smith

2024-11-05 07:00:16 UTC

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you. - Maya Angelou

2024-11-04 17:39:40 UTC

It's probably a good time to remind y'all that we have zero ads, no paywall, and all our digital issues are DRM-free when you buy direct from us or our friends at @npub1pq8…jykv
Your support, via buying issues or joining our Patreon, keeps the lights on.

2024-11-01 13:06:28 UTC

Delete the adjectives and you’ll have the facts. - Harper Lee

2024-09-20 12:59:36 UTC

Everybody should be quiet near a little stream and listen. - Ruth Krauss

2024-09-09 12:59:51 UTC

Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. - Angela Carter

2024-09-03 00:59:54 UTC

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.; - Amelia Earhart

2024-08-26 07:00:15 UTC

Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we won't have as much censorship because we won't have as much fear. - Judy Blume

2024-08-25 13:00:22 UTC

Write the kind of story you would like to read. People will give you all sorts of advice about writing, but if you are not writing something you like, no one else will like it either. - Meg Cabot

2024-08-20 01:00:07 UTC

Power’s not given to you. You have to take it. - Beyoncé Knowles Carter

2024-08-10 19:00:05 UTC

When I run the world, librarians will be exempt from tragedy. Even their smaller sorrows will last only for as long as you can take out a book.' — Karen Joy Fowler

2024-08-05 13:00:00 UTC

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving. - Madeleine L'Engle

2024-08-01 19:00:55 UTC

Keep some room in your heart for the unimaginable. - Mary Oliver