2012 — The Monarch Review — Page 16
An Example Of The Motif Of Harmful Sensation In Fiction – Christopher WunderLee
Wednesday, February 22, 2012 13:24 — 12 Comments
On a bright blue day, something happened. This something, as it were, was most likely nature finally discovering metaphor, or perhaps, finally comprehending metaphor, because it rained cats and dogs. Not frogs mind you, which can be explained scientifically (poor things are lifted up from their swamps by the high density of decomposition towards the low density of the sky and then, come tumbling down). It rained cats and dogs.Â
SELF-STORAGE – Rebecca Hoogs
Tuesday, February 21, 2012 13:37 — 0 Comments
“Little soul little stray / little drifter / now where will you stay…â€
The Shaman’s Eyes – Frank Scozzari
Wednesday, February 15, 2012 13:17 — 3 Comments
The chest wound was deep and Ben Gordon knew he had to stop the bleeding and stop it soon, or he’d lose yet another patient. After all he had been through in the past week with all the wounded and displaced refugees pouring in from the region north, the delayed shipment of medical supplies, and their water source going foul, losing another patient now would be more than he could bear. The boy, barely sixteen, lay beneath a hanging fluorescent light. Beads of perspiration covered his dark black skin. The wound, caused by a single slash of a machete, split […]
Our First Birthday
Tuesday, February 14, 2012 2:46 — 0 Comments
A year ago today The Monarch Review published its first poems, stories, essays and songs. Since then we’ve published over a two hundred works by writers, artists and musicians far and wide. We put out our first print edition late last year, and are hard at work putting together a second issue scheduled to hit the newsstands in early summer. We’re grateful to all our contributors and donors for their integral part in bringing this creation to life. To commemorate our first year we’re making the print edition available in PDF format. The link is provided below. TMR Print Edition […]
Aubade – Mark J. Mitchell
Monday, February 13, 2012 12:46 — 0 Comments
Like water writing on skin, drawing shapes
The Astronomer’s Lament – John Minser
Thursday, February 9, 2012 13:02 — 0 Comments
I’ll admit that absence
The Sun Eaters – Alex M. Pruteanu
Tuesday, February 7, 2012 13:21 — 2 Comments
We ran together on the frozen land like a pack of insane hyenas. Children. All ages. Starving. Poor. Ill-dressed. Some dying from tuberculosis. Others living with pneumonia, coughing up liquefied guts and bile. We puffed on used, dry butts we found in the rubble of the war. Stained, finger-rolled, half-smoked cigarettes; some abandoned in a hurry, others interrupted by sudden death. All tainted by once-infected lips. Herpes. Blisters. Cankers. Remnants discarded by the dead. We made up games and stories, all the while subsisting in the shadows of destruction, orphan concrete, rebar, and petrified bones: “Enemy sniper dragged his last […]
10 Reasons Why I Am Ending Class Early – Jessie Carty
Monday, February 6, 2012 12:51 — 2 Comments
1 – Before I arrived on campus, I saw lightning cradling the sky like a crescent.
Slim-Fast Vacation – Lori Horvitz
Thursday, February 2, 2012 16:47 — 5 Comments
Two years had gone by since my last relationship ended, since I last kissed anyone. Not for lack of trying. I went on dates with women, most of whom I met on the Internet–one who told me her ex-girlfriend had accused her of strangulation, but in her defense, said, “There weren’t even any marks on her neck!†When I asked how she trained her four well-behaved Jack Russell dogs, she said, “I beat the shit out of them!†Another who, when I told her I was Jewish, said, “I once met a woman from Germany.†And another who was a […]
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
