Fiction

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For a Moment She Thought – Bill Cook

Monday, August 22, 2016 10:28 — 2 Comments

She warms a plate of food in the microwave atop her refrigerator. Afterwards, she smokes a cigarette in the chrome dinette chair and flips through the latest issue of Bust. She stops on the page with the fall clothing advertisements after finishing the article about divorce and dating and lust and sex. Last month, it was weight loss and related disorders like binge eating and anorexia and induced vomiting. Joan’s happy she’s only marginally overweight. Though, she’s doing much better. For instance, on her days off she’ll meet Sonia for a jog and then afterwards they’ll make love or go […]

Poetry

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Three Poems – Buff Whitman-Bradley

Friday, August 19, 2016 9:52 — 0 Comments

The cat comes back I have been told by many That an important part Of recovering from cancer Is a positive attitude. Visualize yourself cancer-free And living many more years They tell me Which I most certainly do Each time the pussycat of dread comes Stealing into my consciousness On its furtive little feet To leap up onto the table Knock over the punch bowl And ruin my party. I visualize like mad – Myself as a jaunty octogenarian Hiking in the woods with my kids and grandkids, Swapping harrowing treatment tales With other survivors, Growing older and older with […]

Music

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Talking with Mississippi

Thursday, August 18, 2016 16:16 — 0 Comments

Mississippi Jones may not be the most well-known Seattle band in town, but the group may be one of the most surprising. Fronted by Mississippi Brenna, the flutter-voiced, electric-eyed lead singer, the band plays thoughtful, inclusive music aimed at a diverse audience. And the group has a few shows coming up – Aug. 25 at Vermillion and Aug. 27 at inartsnw. In light of this, we wanted to catch up with the band’s frontwoman to get some insight into her writing process.   Jake Uitti: When you’re singing to an audience, what’s going through your mind? Mississippi Brenna: I try […]

Visual Arts

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Seattle Superheroes: ‘Cave Sean’ De Tore

Wednesday, August 17, 2016 11:28 — 0 Comments

Hello and welcome back to our regular series, Seattle Superheroes, which has taken incarnations on several different sites but now lands here at home with The Monarch. This week’s installment features one of our favorite radio personalities, Sean De Tore, in all his selfless sacrifice-to-make-the-world-a-better-and-safer-place glory. Here we see Sean, mild-mannered, at home in his apartment when disaster strikes. The saber-toothed cat has escaped from the laboratory and Sean needs to protect his fellow citizens. Blessed with super strength and a fearlessness only born out of the streets of New Jersey, where Sean is originally from, he dashes out of the […]

Essays

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Shaun Scott, Millennial Mouthpiece

Monday, August 8, 2016 12:58 — 0 Comments

Shaun Scott is a writer, director and contributor to the Monarch as well as other Seattle publications. His keen insight and his strength in tackling difficult subjects like race, politics and pop culture have him writing some of the most impactful prose in the Emerald City. On top of all that, he has a new book coming out, which he’s been working on for either a year or his whole life, depending on how you count. We talked with him about his process.   So you just got a book deal. First question: HOW THE HELL DOES SOMEONE GET A […]

Poetry

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Two Poems – Carrie Conners

Thursday, August 4, 2016 12:23 — 1 Comment

Sex Ed After my mom declared You’re just showing off when I asked at 12 years old if my bras had shrunk in the dryer I started going lingerie shopping with my former babysitter. On break from college, she’d pick me up in The Banana, her decomposing Volkswagen Rabbit—one day the turn signal wand snapped off in her hand at a Stop sign by the old Fostoria factory—and she’d drive us to the Stone & Thomas in Wheeling with my mom’s credit card in my pocket. As our thighs fused to the black vinyl seats in the summer heat, she’d […]

TMR #3 is Now Available!

What am I?

Bioluminescent eye
That sees by the shine
Of its own light. Lies

Blind me. I am the seventh human sense
And my stepchild,
Consequence;

Scientists can't find me.

Januswise I make us men;
Glamour
Was my image then—

Remind me:

The awful fall up off all fours
From the forest
To the hours…

Tick, Tock: Divine me.

-- Richard Kenney

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Book Release and Reading Feb. 6

January 6th, 2016

Hello fellow readers, travelers and Monarchians! Our first book, Traveling Light, written by Seattle author, Jim Brantingham, is now for sale! And we will be throwing a release party for it Feb. 6 at 6pm in Ravenna Third Place Books (on the corner of 65th and 20th NE). Jim will be reading from the book and there will be guest readers accompanying him. Space is limited, so we suggest you come early. Books can be bought through this link here or at Ravenna Third Place Books (which just ordered it’s second wave of books). We are super excited for this release and […]