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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

managing editor

chris pruitt

founding editor matthew guerrero

POETRY / sober / LJ Pemberton

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ever watch
someone
smoke
because they can’t just
stand outside
and                                                      stare at strangers
dogs and birds and passing
cars and buses and children
vendors           handing hotdogs to

tourists                        who are lost,
so they

decide that satiating hunger
will suffice for fun


Originally from Georgia, LJ Pemberton is a writer / artist / futurist currently living in Los Angeles, California. Her award-winning stories and poetry have been featured in PANK, the Electric Encyclopedia of Experimental Literature, Hobart, Cobalt, the Los Angeles Review, and elsewhere. She has an MFA from Columbia University and was previously an assistant editor at NOON. She currently reviews fiction for Publishers Weekly. Find out more at ljpemberton.com.

POETRY / Runaway Dreams / Elizabeth Robin

ESSAY / The Night in Tiananmen Square / Sarah Bovold

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