Moonday Mag: Mirror Image

“It’s why we moved the setting to Georgia. It’s why the crops are tobacco, not cotton. History is a breadcrumb trail of details and Charley Storm has given them something else to follow. They won’t be looking for the graves on our land. And someday, probably soon, the old fields will be paved. Shopping centers, neighborhoods, cul-de-sacs, you name it. It’s inevitable. In a way, you’ve done us a favor. They’ll never find us, Jack.”

Mirror Image, published in Issue 8 of Moonday Mag, is an exploration of the violence of the act of silencing. Features some pretty cool descriptions of a hurricane based on personal experience.

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About this issue:

In this year’s Moonday Madness, we present seven short stories, six poems, and twelve pieces of art, all handpicked by our growing staff of gentle ghouls. In “Mirror Image”, forces both supernatural and elemental conspire to silence an author. In “Playing a New Game”, a father does his best to feign normalcy in the face of what used to be a mother. In “Wick”, sensitive artist is just a stone’s throw away from sensitive killer. In “The Life and Times of Coprinus Comatus”, evolution isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. In “The Ghost & The Ghost”, family always finds family. In “Transcripts From That Evening”, an alien invasion is just getting started. And in “Visitation”, not even zombification will allow an undeserving girl to inherit her grandmother’s fortune.

About Moonday Mag:

Founded in 2023, Moonday Mag is a quarterly, speculative art and literary magazine dedicated to celebrating all things fantastic and fantastically strange. 

Inspired by our founder’s dream journal, and born in the place that rests between here and the uncanny valley, Moonday Mag wonders what else might be out there, beyond the veil. From sci-fi to fantasy, to the horrors only a quiet mind can imagine, to the witching hour caught on camera in 35mm, Moonday Mag wants it all and welcomes all.

Those we have published range from New York Times Best-Selling authors to Notes App poets to world-renowned artists to Procreate enthusiasts. To date, Moonday Mag has published work from 9 debut writers, 8 debut artists, and 33 countries.

Moonday Mag is an international, grassroots publication that seeks to bridge the [imaginary] gap between literary and genre.