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 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€
Three Poems – Maged Zaher
Thursday, April 24, 2014 10:23 — 0 Comments
Then they baptized me with dirt and I became fit to smell the perfumes of the world.
Open-Source Living vol. 6 – Jessie Sawyers
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 10:50 — 0 Comments
Well, here I am, four months out from my previous post. One of my goals this year, and the focus of my ongoing entries here on Monarch, was to produce a music concert with my dear friends and musicians Josh Rawlings, Evan Flory-Barnes, and Jeremy Jones of The Teaching. I am thrilled to say that a concert is happening on May 4th at the Triple Door, though not in the way I had been planning – but that’s perfectly okay. I find that it’s a wild journey bringing creative ideas to fruition, best pursued with a healthy dose of letting […]
An Interview With Chandler Woodfin
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 8:30 — 1 Comment
Chandler Woodfin was gracious enough to offer her art for our latest print edition, Monarch 3, she was even chosen as the cover artist for the book. Her work is bright, beautiful, abstract, generous, precarious. She is also a new mom. We had the chance to chat with Chandler about her work, her recent life balancing act and her new work.Â
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
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 […]
