When the Moon Was Heavy is a tender and raw diary-style short story following Emily Hunter, a 25-year-old Commercial Fashion Design major with a secret soft spot for josei manga and cosmic metaphors. Eight months pregnant and preparing for her senior capstone at Avalon Central University, Emily navigates the bittersweet territory between girlhood and womanhood while trying to stitch together a future with her long-time boyfriend, Rashad.

Set in the dreamy, high-stakes world of Ivory Spire's creative elite, Emily's story unfolds through poetic, purple prose-filled diary entries that explore identity, self-worth, unresolved childhood wounds, and the terrifying magic of impending motherhood. When a false labor scare forces her estranged mother into her orbit and her ambitions come crashing into the reality of her swollen belly, Emily begins a transformation not unlike the moon's own: messy, luminous, inevitable.