The Power of Gold

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Winters can be rough, but just as each day gets longer and the weather turns from miserable to less so, take comfort with our fabulous cover of our Winter 2023 issue. The Magical Time Queen is here to introduce you to our great artists, poets, photographers, and writers. This issue is golden. Sure, all our issues are special, but this is the last one with Monkeyshines as its title – a Collector’s Edition for sure. Get this issue sent directly to your door for free! No shipping or handling costs, no funny business, just pure Monkeyshines delivered to your mailbox.

There’s madness, despair, and, importantly, hope in this issue. It’s crazy how talented our contributors are, and we can’t be more happy to share their work with you. Contents of this issue are below, and there’s a snazzy digital edition too, if you like that sort of thing.

This isn’t the end! We will have our next issue in Summer of 2023 – we just don’t know the name of it yet. ::grin::

Information about our awesome group of contributors can be found under the masthead.

In this issue:

• How about that cover? The photo is by Racheal Halupa of Photography Sisters, the dress is from Your Fairy Godmother Couture, the makeup and modeling were both done by Excessive Mascara

• Chris Fahey gives us a look at the “Golden Age.”

• Annalea of ÆSTHETIC WORKSHOP goes deep into “Long Island’s Haunted Asylum: Kings Park Psychiatric Center.”

• caelxxn tells us about “the never ending night.”

• An anonymous poet comes out the other side of “Suicide.”

• Katherine R shares her photo, entitled “This Is 90.”

• Alexa Goldstein shares two poems, “Watch Me Shine” and “Welcome Winter,”, and a photo of Atlantic Ave at night.

• Corey Gene Monaco gives us the next chapter of his Coterminous saga, “The Newcomer.”

• Robert A shares “My Homework Story.”

• Tal shares two photos, “Hallways” and “Wayward Leaves.”

• Our oracle flips the Otter to give us the Winter Animal Oracle.