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Jennifer Lyn Parsons

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September 25, 1975

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A software engineer by trade, Jennifer Lyn Parsons is a life-long lover of story with a capital S. Her work has been seen in various magazines and she has published three books, with quite a few more in her back pocket. She counts Jim Jarmusch and Laura Ingalls Wilder as two of her biggest influences. Make of that what you will.

When not writing either code or fiction, she reads books and comics, and sometimes makes things out of wool or paper. She finds joy in making things, be they digital or analog.

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	The Best of Luna Station Quarterly: The First Five Years by Jennifer Lyn Parsons (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Deborah Bailey (Contributor), K. Bannerman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 4.17 avg rating — 6 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
	Luna Station Quarterly #25 by Jennifer Lyn Parsons (Goodreads Author) (Editor), H. Pueyo (Goodreads Author), Christina D.Z.A. Marie (Goodreads Author) 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2016 — 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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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

tags: belief, real-life, reality

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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

tags: arts, trickster

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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

tags: loki, norse-myth

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