emily moonlight
@threnody.bsky.social
fiction writer • roommate to 3 cats with rich interior lives • parmesan enthusiast • interrobang evangelist
stories: prairie schooner 98.4 • hopkins review 15.4 • south carolina review 55.2 • post road 40 • 2023 clmp pride reading list
stories: prairie schooner 98.4 • hopkins review 15.4 • south carolina review 55.2 • post road 40 • 2023 clmp pride reading list
me: “who the fuck is ricky goldfarb? why can the mailman never fucking just put the right mail in our box?”
my wife:
my wife:
November 14, 2025 at 12:33 AM
me: “who the fuck is ricky goldfarb? why can the mailman never fucking just put the right mail in our box?”
my wife:
my wife:
i can’t really call the 1994 stand miniseries “good,” but it was my first post-star wars epic & i caught it live after being banned from even the thriller video as a kid, so i love it pretty uncritically. it’s on now, which has me thinking again how fucking fucking much i hated the 2020 miniseries.
November 13, 2025 at 4:52 AM
i can’t really call the 1994 stand miniseries “good,” but it was my first post-star wars epic & i caught it live after being banned from even the thriller video as a kid, so i love it pretty uncritically. it’s on now, which has me thinking again how fucking fucking much i hated the 2020 miniseries.
hijinx, banter, some peril
November 13, 2025 at 4:18 AM
hijinx, banter, some peril
artist rendering of the scene except they got one detail wrong I DO
NOT HAVE THE NICE OVERCOAT.
i am standing outdoors demanding from the night the permission to die, though. that much is true.
NOT HAVE THE NICE OVERCOAT.
i am standing outdoors demanding from the night the permission to die, though. that much is true.
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM
artist rendering of the scene except they got one detail wrong I DO
NOT HAVE THE NICE OVERCOAT.
i am standing outdoors demanding from the night the permission to die, though. that much is true.
NOT HAVE THE NICE OVERCOAT.
i am standing outdoors demanding from the night the permission to die, though. that much is true.
spent all day talking myself into how i deserved a nice coat & how i worked hard enough to treat myself to the nice coat & above all i’m maybe possibly girly enough to pull off the nice coat & i wouldn’t look like an adult silverback drafted by the NFL if i wore the nice coat & after all that, this.
November 13, 2025 at 4:04 AM
spent all day talking myself into how i deserved a nice coat & how i worked hard enough to treat myself to the nice coat & above all i’m maybe possibly girly enough to pull off the nice coat & i wouldn’t look like an adult silverback drafted by the NFL if i wore the nice coat & after all that, this.
(the trans panic defense is still legal in all the grey states)
November 12, 2025 at 11:22 PM
(the trans panic defense is still legal in all the grey states)
i’m truly awful at self-promo, but if i’m fictionposting on main i should remind folks that i actually write fiction on occasion & you can read the most recent thing that found a home outside my hard drive in its entirety & for free by tapping the link.
prairieschooner.unl.edu/excerpt/boyi...
prairieschooner.unl.edu/excerpt/boyi...
November 12, 2025 at 6:52 AM
i’m truly awful at self-promo, but if i’m fictionposting on main i should remind folks that i actually write fiction on occasion & you can read the most recent thing that found a home outside my hard drive in its entirety & for free by tapping the link.
prairieschooner.unl.edu/excerpt/boyi...
prairieschooner.unl.edu/excerpt/boyi...
and as silly as it is to have to be told “try not to overlook when the world doesn’t hurt,” yes, i had to be told to try not to overlook when the world doesn’t hurt and he did it in such a way that i still say it verbatim.
if this isn’t nice, what is?
i think it’s lovely.
if this isn’t nice, what is?
i think it’s lovely.
![One of the things [Uncle Alex] found objectionable about human beings was that they so rarely noticed it when they were happy. He himself did his best to acknowledge it when times were sweet.
We could be drinking lemonade in the shade of an apple tree in the summertime, and Uncle Alex would interrupt the conversation to say, "If this isn't nice, what is?"
So I hope that you will do the same for the rest of your lives. When things are going sweetly and peacefully, please pause a moment, and then say out loud,
"If this isn't nice, what is?"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2lzahebnas6od6j6jfydwst7/bafkreiebe3xo5bp3yzlz2nvsarbkyij4pj3dk26jcxtg7ztpmbbctmkdgy@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 5:29 AM
and as silly as it is to have to be told “try not to overlook when the world doesn’t hurt,” yes, i had to be told to try not to overlook when the world doesn’t hurt and he did it in such a way that i still say it verbatim.
if this isn’t nice, what is?
i think it’s lovely.
if this isn’t nice, what is?
i think it’s lovely.
you don’t put claire forlani in a ratty pastel yellow cardigan with…whatever those designs are! i don’t belieeeeeeve you!
November 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
you don’t put claire forlani in a ratty pastel yellow cardigan with…whatever those designs are! i don’t belieeeeeeve you!
only took me 26 years but i’m *finally* getting to mystery men which…sucks, but it’s got claire forlani playing low-status, which…..doesn’t work but she’s still claire forlani & janeane garofalo as…..semigoth? quasipunk?…which absolutely *does* work. teen emily would have been a mess.
November 11, 2025 at 7:13 AM
only took me 26 years but i’m *finally* getting to mystery men which…sucks, but it’s got claire forlani playing low-status, which…..doesn’t work but she’s still claire forlani & janeane garofalo as…..semigoth? quasipunk?…which absolutely *does* work. teen emily would have been a mess.
“who is this weirdo replying so…formlessly? let’s just tap through and…..OH GOD NO.”
November 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
“who is this weirdo replying so…formlessly? let’s just tap through and…..OH GOD NO.”
i obviously support the “primary them all” school of thought but, for the record, it’s going to require a more than that to *get* to the next primary for these people—who i assume took a hit for 2026 cycle dems anyways.
primary them, yes, but these people really shouldn’t be able to eat in public.
primary them, yes, but these people really shouldn’t be able to eat in public.
November 10, 2025 at 2:08 AM
i obviously support the “primary them all” school of thought but, for the record, it’s going to require a more than that to *get* to the next primary for these people—who i assume took a hit for 2026 cycle dems anyways.
primary them, yes, but these people really shouldn’t be able to eat in public.
primary them, yes, but these people really shouldn’t be able to eat in public.
what you absolutely *don’t* get to do is springboard off me—your cptsd haver—for absolutely bonkers fucking pseudoscience like “trauma is estrogen mediated.”
November 9, 2025 at 9:07 AM
what you absolutely *don’t* get to do is springboard off me—your cptsd haver—for absolutely bonkers fucking pseudoscience like “trauma is estrogen mediated.”
“huh….i don’t really get that quote. is it a dunk on me? …maybe not? idk. well…i guess being an account of a certain size means i eventually have to get comfy with abstruse ways people choose to springboard off stuff i say? maybe? …still…maybe i tap through and see what else they’re posting……ah.”
November 9, 2025 at 7:49 AM
“huh….i don’t really get that quote. is it a dunk on me? …maybe not? idk. well…i guess being an account of a certain size means i eventually have to get comfy with abstruse ways people choose to springboard off stuff i say? maybe? …still…maybe i tap through and see what else they’re posting……ah.”
why, this makes my whole downward spiral look positively cheery!
November 9, 2025 at 4:57 AM
why, this makes my whole downward spiral look positively cheery!
take two!
[rubbing temples, but smiling]
do i want to stay up all night playing doom?
(my wife is so awesome)
[rubbing temples, but smiling]
do i want to stay up all night playing doom?
(my wife is so awesome)
November 9, 2025 at 3:43 AM
take two!
[rubbing temples, but smiling]
do i want to stay up all night playing doom?
(my wife is so awesome)
[rubbing temples, but smiling]
do i want to stay up all night playing doom?
(my wife is so awesome)
we have reached “just figuring out the logistics” point of it all, girl.
November 8, 2025 at 10:12 PM
we have reached “just figuring out the logistics” point of it all, girl.
corinne has stuck by me through a lot but i not only said “we should buy polar’s brown sugar clementine seltzer” but also “you should try it first” so long story short i’m single now and she was right to leave 😔
November 7, 2025 at 8:04 PM
corinne has stuck by me through a lot but i not only said “we should buy polar’s brown sugar clementine seltzer” but also “you should try it first” so long story short i’m single now and she was right to leave 😔
this scene was already grim for its realism but in a season 36 retelling of the homer and marge origin story he has to say “it would damage the town to hear about the children i’ve raped” to keep up with the times.
November 7, 2025 at 12:19 AM
this scene was already grim for its realism but in a season 36 retelling of the homer and marge origin story he has to say “it would damage the town to hear about the children i’ve raped” to keep up with the times.
automod doing valuable work here.
November 6, 2025 at 3:43 PM
automod doing valuable work here.