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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

How She Lost Her Hair by Kyle Hemmings

You slept with too many men curled like a spoon, frugal with their touch, but not their post-coital whimpering. By morning, they had sunk underwater. You gave up on mash potatoes and eating seaweed with chopsticks. You dated a motorcyclist who resembled Abbie Hoffman. His pockets were linty. His blurry eyes were never very deep. Then you turned someone’s husband into a wild horse. You spent the rest of the summer jumping feet first into S-shaped pools. Children handed you scooped flowers. You renounced your faith in slanted stars, capes of cloud, anything that hummed in the darkness. Loopy from sleep, you cut your own hair in the mirror, then pulled away like the tide. You became a lone river reflecting pearly light.


Kyle Hemmings is the author of several chapbooks of poems: Avenue C, Cat People, and Anime Junkie (Scars Publications). His latest ebook is You Never Die in Wholes from Good Story Press. His favorite band of all time is Love and he is a big fan of Roky Erickson. He lives and writes in New Jersey.

With Our Yellowing Nails by Amanda Armstrong

Poutine by S.C. Stuckey

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