2014 — The Monarch Review — Page 16
Three Songs To The Head vol. 11
Wednesday, May 14, 2014 10:38 — 0 Comments
Welcome once again to Three Songs To The Head, and welcome to what we believe to be the perfect soundtrack to accompany our exile from winter to the crisp sunny days of spring. Heads up everyone, this is a group of bands that are just showing us the beginning of what we expect to see out of them this year.
An Interview With Eli Rosenblatt
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 11:36 — 0 Comments
I’ve known Eli Rosenblatt for about seven years now – I was introduced to him by Monarch co-founder Caleb Thompson, who grew up with and played in a band with Eli. The two are longtime friends and both great musicians. Eli, now, has taken his talents (trademark Lebron James) to the world of kids’ music: writing songs, giving lessons and playing shows for happy, dancing children! And coming up, Eli will be playing Timber! Outdoor Music Festival. I wanted to chat with him about what it’s like to go from the world of 21+ shows to the world of kids’ […]
Drown – Lisa Metrikin
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 11:20 — 0 Comments
It’s the summer of 1941 and there’s a war across the world. Dov lies in bed in the room where his whole family sleeps, his cot and his parents’ bed and his brother Daniel’s crib crammed into the small room. The heat keeps waking him, even though he’s covered by nothing except his sweat-dampened shorts. Central Ontario has been humid for days, the sky vacillating between cloudless blue and an ominous shade of grey, as if it can’t settle on a mood. Even the nights are sticky, oppressively hot. No one can sleep.
The Marauders (part 3 of 3) – David Armand
Tuesday, May 6, 2014 10:22 — 1 Comment
(This is the third installment of this short story, for part 1 click here, for part 2 here)Â
The Monarch Drinks With Jinkx Monsoon
Monday, May 5, 2014 13:13 — 0 Comments
“Australia was wonderful!” Jinkx Monsoon said and she scooted her chair in and arranged herself at the table. Himself. Whichever. He was technically Jerick Hoffer at the moment, not Jinkx Monsoon, but really, that’s a fragile distinction. They are now practically one indistinguishable entity—although Jerick can seem much more soft spoken than his wild and wonderful drag personae, Jinkx. The whole thing is enough to make one confuse his and/or her pronouns.
The Marauders (part 2 of 3) – David Armand
Monday, May 5, 2014 12:55 — 1 Comment
(This is the second installment of this story, for part 1 click here, for part 3 here)
Protons, Neutrons – Darren Davis
Thursday, May 1, 2014 12:50 — 0 Comments
The world’s largest high-energy particle accelerator is 27 kilometers in circumference, beating the world’s second largest high-energy particle accelerator by 21 kilometers. The world’s second largest high-energy particle accelerator is somewhere in Illinois and called Tevatron, which sounds like a robot butler. The world’s largest high-energy particle accelerator is located on the Franco-Swiss border and called the Large Hadron Collider, which sounds like it was hauled in from some distant, crazy galaxy for the express purpose of killing The Avengers.
Mongoose – Brett Hamil
Tuesday, April 29, 2014 11:52 — 1 Comment
Burdell found a mongoose in the trap and now he had to kill it. He hated this part of the job. The first few times, he did it with a pellet gun point-blank to the brainpan, but that felt too personal, too gangsterish. Lately, he’d been experimenting with carbon monoxide, stuffing the condemned into a Hefty bag and pumping in exhaust with a hose from the Jeep’s tailpipe. This took longer but seemed more humane.  Â
The Marauders (part 1 of 3) – David Armand
Monday, April 28, 2014 12:30 — 3 Comments
But the reckless one – I warn the marauder dragging plunder, chaotic, rich beyond all rights: he’ll strike his sails, harried at long last, stunned when the squalls of torment break his spars to bits. -Aeschylus, “The Eumenidesâ€
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
