Crystal Blue Persuasion

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Welcome to the second issue of Monkeyshines! If you’d like a paper copy of our Summer 2021 issue, send an email to [email protected]. This issue is also available as a PDF to download. The PDF is fairly big, so don’t download it on cellular, unless you have an unlimited plan.

In this issue we have double the reviews 🥰, but no turtles 😞. Still, we have our Oracle and great fiction and poetry. The artwork and photography, as we’ve established in our first issue, is top-notch. We hope you enjoy this issue, and consider submitting something that shows your creativity for a future issue!

Our awesome group of contributors can be found under Summer’s masthead.

In this issue:

Photos, Paintings, Projects

• “Menandor”, cover art by PLUGO
• “Hotel Diablo”, digital painting by NeoVenom
• “Shake With Me, Quake With Me”, multimedia presentation by Tobias Hobbes
• A photo by Racheal Halupa
• “Hope”, drawing by Donald Swenson
• “El gato largo en el espacio”, photo by Katherine R
• “Color Blind”, painting by Christopher Fahey
• Spice drawers and grinder, woodwork, staining, and painting by Wally and Deb

Writings & Reviews

• “Darkness Rising”, serialized short story, part 1, by Estelle Clark
• “Abduction”, short story by Morgan Bissell
• “The Box”, poetry by Donald Swenson
• “dukkha”, poetry by Rich Fantasia
• JP’s Hot Source, reviews by JP Hooper
• Letterboxd with Thom, reviews by Thom Becker
• “The Kingdom”, short, descriptive nonfiction by Jonathan Russell

Augury

• Summer Animal Oracle, oracle reading from Painted Birch

Monkeyshines

• “The Vacuum, Usage and Precautions.”, transcription of image found in the wilds of the ’net