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DRUNK MONKEYS IS A Literary Magazine and Film Blog founded in 2011 featuring short stories, flash fiction, poetry, film articles, movie reviews, and more

Editor-in-chief KOLLEEN CARNEY-HOEPFNEr

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Apr 2
Apr 2 FICTIONBrotherMichael Chin

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Fiction

“Every time he says, brother, he’s talking to you,” Mom explained. “He makes it sound like he’s talking to the whole world, but he’s only thinking about you.”

He did say it all the time. I’d never noticed.

Apr 2
Apr 2 FICTIONBrian and INeil Clark

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Fiction

The door creaked open and snapped me out of my malaise. Brian walked in. My axe was still lodged firmly into his head.

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRYPainting My Emotional Landscape with Bob RossShevaun Brannigan

Drunk Monkeys
Poetry

I am not a painter. I am not a happy person.
I do not see a blade and think mountaintop,
I do not see turpentine and think fresh start.

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRYAubade with the Dew Drop Inn Boulder Bootleg, or After the Majory Stoneman Douglas High School Shooting, I Turn Off the World and Try to Hide Inside My EarbudsAnthony Frame

Drunk Monkeys
Poetry

a few constellations I don’t recognize / here / all I see are / road kill deer / pistols / rifles / here / in my head / last night’s storm still / blazes /

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRYSearching Huffington PostCatherine M. Anderson

Drunk Monkeys
Poetry

Searching Huffington Post for articles
on "Compassionate ways to ask
your spouse for a divorce"did not prove
fruitful.

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRYRelationships need verbsShloka Shankar

Drunk Monkeys
Poetry

I can’t do stupid today.
These aren’t my pants (or jam hands).
I left behind a glass slipper
in a bottomless pit—

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRYOlder than BarbieKaren Paul Holmes

Drunk Monkeys

But in 1970, she started looking straight at you:
Those sneaky eyes had to go said mothers
who finally accepted her giant breasts (sans nipples).

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRY“Time is but a river flowing”Sam Rasnake

Drunk Monkeys
Poetry

Hope and results are different…one doesn’t create the other
                                    [Looking at himself in a mirror]
                                    There’s a reliable disappointment

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRYTetrominoAmanda Latrenta Crane

Drunk Monkeys
Poetry

I see the pattern now
deep in the blue blocks
that keep me in puzzles.

Apr 2
Apr 2 ARTThree Found PoemsSara Adams

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Art

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRYSimon and Garfunkel on a December AfternoonTerry Wolverton

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Poetry

I would have to make a career, stomping around
like a mastodon to find a portal, some rough crack
in the old world for us to spark through. I would have
to head for an impossible destination,

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRYOde to MeatwadJoanna C. Valente

Drunk Monkeys
Poetry

What is a human besides meat?

Does electricity really create what we call

life & what does that exactly make you?

Apr 2
Apr 2 ESSAYTurn On the Tube: How I Use TV to Survive My DepressionN. Alysha Lewis

Drunk Monkeys
Non-Fiction

I enjoy a good dose of Leslie, Ron, Donna, April—the whole gang—on my best days. But on my worst, this show becomes an unbingeable nightmare.

Because Leslie Knope makes me feel like shit.

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRYFuriosaJennifer GivhanWriter of the Month

Drunk Monkeys
Poetry

There’s a heart in a bag      (face it)      throw it over              the
edge           that  thing  pumping  like  fury  like  fire  inside           
you never belonged to him

Apr 2
Apr 2 FICTIONThe HecklerCraig Fishbane

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Fiction

When Conan O’Brien asked if his parents had purposely named him after the legendary comedian, George conceded that his parents didn’t actually have much of a sense of humor. The crack went viral on You Tube.

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRYThat's Too Much, ManJennifer Schomburg Kanke

Drunk Monkeys
Poetry

Is there anything to call that? Something that’s more
than you should but not so much you know it’s wrong?

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRYElizabeth Short Visits the Black LodgeSarah Nichols

Drunk Monkeys
Poetry

I understand. I
tell her that

sometimes, my
arms bend back.

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRYThere Exists a MovieSuzanne Verrall

Drunk Monkeys
Poetry

Which is not to say
the way to get the best performance out of someone is to have them fear
for their life

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRYAccelerating ElevatorJennifer GivhanWriter of the Month

Drunk Monkeys
Poetry

I’ve just had the happiest thought
Nieve says, the ice of her hair melting rapidly

at these speeds—A girl falling is the same as flying
downward.

Apr 2
Apr 2 POETRYCourtney Love is in Dire Need of Attention Right Now, 1995Caitlyn GD

Drunk Monkeys
Poetry

Now, what option did you have when
the whole world saw you break, said you broke
what you had meant to fix? Wasn’t it always your
job, caretaker? You are ignored, now screaming.

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