SHORT STORYA Hand For Your HipLisa Bubert

SHORT STORYA Hand For Your HipLisa Bubert

Drunk Monkeys

Two co-workers bond in Lisa Bubert's short story, "Hand For Your Hip."

Zoe is twenty-eight, unmarried, without children, and not beautiful but not unbeautiful. She comes in to work every day dressed as if she is a different person, her make-up and hair changed so strikingly, it is not unusual for regulars to ask if each day is her first day. Today, she is stunning and elegant. The day before, she lined her eyes thick, left her hair unbrushed, and replaced the stud in her nose with a ring. George has seen her hair dyed blonde, black, pink, and now this deep, dark red. He likes the red but the blonde is his favorite. When Zoe wore blonde, she wore it white and curled like Marilyn Monroe and she walked with the poise required of it. The world rotated around her presence -- the books, papers, and people around her but waves on the sea and she the magnetic core. 

SHORT STORYFit of InspirationSarah SzaboWriter of the Month

SHORT STORYFit of InspirationSarah SzaboWriter of the Month

Sarah Szabo

"Fit of Inspiration" by Sarah Szabo, our writer of the month, is a short story about a man who is having a day where nothing is going his way. It all starts when someone tears out half of the last page. 

Karl bit his lip, set down the book. Last page torn out of the sturdy binding. How shitty. Some awful rube must've needed to scribble a phone number and panicked, or just hated the ending enough to damn it to the void. Or maybe they were just sadistic. One crucial page gone and the whole story's ruined.

SHORT STORYCaring For Prickly PearJake Buckholz

SHORT STORYCaring For Prickly PearJake Buckholz

Drunk Monkeys

A little girl spends the afternoon in the library waiting for her father in Jason Buckholz's short story, "Care For Prickly Pear."

The plants she loved most were desert plants which was fortunate because they were often driving through deserts. Her father said Jesus had the right idea when he went out for forty days into the desert, he said that’s probably where he got all his big ideas because man can think in a desert like he can in no other place. 

SHORT STORYThe English Muffin CriticArthur Davis

SHORT STORYThe English Muffin CriticArthur Davis

Drunk Monkeys

Two spies meet at a wedding in Arthur Davis' short story, "The English Muffin Critic."

“No silencer there. Someone’s bound to hear the shot, especially in this stone wall chamber with two very large vaulted openings facing the street.”

                “It’s really a beautiful church and quite a shame to mess up your elegant tux from Hiding Roosevelt & Clyde, I believe?”

                “Blyton Huxley, their most senior fitter.”

                “Yes. Couldn’t quite put my finger on which of their tailors it must have been to have stitched you such a fine suit,” she said gesturing with the muzzle of the Beretta at a small wooden bench in the corner. 

FLASH FICTIONThings to do While Waiting For SnowCari Scribner

FLASH FICTIONThings to do While Waiting For SnowCari Scribner

Drunk Monkeys

Grieving and life mingle in this flash fiction piece by Cari Scribner, "Things to do While Waiting For Snow."

Your son asks for an egg sandwich. You can’t remember how he likes his eggs, so you cook them over easy. The seeping yolks distress you. You cook the eggs some more. Half the English muffin gets stuck in the toaster. When you poke it with a fork, it rips to shreds. You eat one of the broken pieces, burning your lip. You utter choice words. 

SHORT STORYMy WifeMaria Benet

SHORT STORYMy WifeMaria Benet

Drunk Monkeys

In the short story, "My Wife" by Maria Benet a wife's hobby becomes her obsession, but happens to the spouse she's left behind?

I didn't set out to cheat on my wife. That was not my intention. It wasn't really about her. When I went down to the hotel bar later that night I wasn't looking for anything to happen, but then again, I wasn't exactly not looking.

 

 

SHORT STORYTrapped in a TowerWilliam Metcalfe

SHORT STORYTrapped in a TowerWilliam Metcalfe

Drunk Monkeys

Two boys get more than they bargained for when they turn an abandoned building into their afternoon hangout. Read more in "Trapped in a Tower" a short story by William Metcalfe.

Like hardened criminals from the movies, we dashed up the stairs to the third floor to avoid the police. A movie crook would have a gat, but we didn’t even have a rock. We were ready to holler for Mother though.         Did the cops purposefully stomp on the stairs to make the building tremble? Were they expecting us to faint thus making our capture easier? 

FLASH FICTIONSave DaveDennis Milam Bensie

FLASH FICTIONSave DaveDennis Milam Bensie

Drunk Monkeys

Dennis Milan Bensie offers a baptism of a different sort in his flash fiction piece, "Save Dave". 

You tell your mom you don’t want to sit in the dunking booth.

       “You have to,” she says. “You’re the biggest draw of all the fallen kids.”

       Your dad instructed you to paint a sign: DUNK THE PUNK.

       Dunk you, Dad. 

SHORT STORYThe St. Thomas More Band Break upDavid Garvey

SHORT STORYThe St. Thomas More Band Break upDavid Garvey

Drunk Monkeys

David Garvey breaks up the band in his short story "The St. Thomas Moore Band Break Up". 

The sense of humor before his final moments. Damn impressive and more confident than myself when facing the guillotine. I took another sip from my highball.

                “You missed it again! What’s going on man?” Brian asked as he casually strung the strings on my bass, his eyes demanding an authentic answer.

SHORT STORYThe Astronaut TheoryJoseph Kasler

SHORT STORYThe Astronaut TheoryJoseph Kasler

Drunk Monkeys

Find out what happens when baseball, armed robbery and the astronaut theory collide in the short story "The Astronaut Theory" by Joseph Kasler. 

“Jeff, we took a vote. You’re off the team, man.  Sorry, but you suck really bad. You can keep the jersey but I will need the pants back- just bring them into the office tomorrow.  And wash ‘em too, don’t be a dick." 

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