BOOK GIVEAWAY!
Posted By admin - 23rd April 2012
With our ninth print issue right around the corner, we need to make some space in the ol’ warehouse. So we’re holding a contest and giving away a bunch of back issues. Here’s how it works:
All you have to do is read through our web archives and pick your favorite story. Then, leave a comment below this post telling us which story struck you the most and why. Each day from today through Sunday, we’ll pick one random winner to receive a back issue of Monkeybicycle. Then at the end of the week we’ll select one grand-prize winner based on the responses to receive a collection of all our back issues—five in total.
There are a lot of great stories in our archives, so be sure to dig deep. And the farther back you go, the funnier our website design is. Entertainment on two levels!
Click here to get to the archives and start reading. And be sure to tell your friends. Whether you receive a book or not, you’ll feel like a grade-A winner after reading a few of our great short stories.
Our grand prize winner will be announced here on Monday, April 30th.
CONTEST WINNERS
Monday: Sandra Ketcham
Tuesday: Thomas Michael Duncan
Wednesday: Shannon Barber
Thursday: Nathan Thornton
Friday: Doug Paul Case
Sunday: Justin Brouckaert
GRAND PRIZE WINNER: Lindsay Oberst
I couldn’t pick one, so here are four that struck me while reading:
Unknowing by Laura Tanenbaum because I can’t unknow this one since reading it. And because the writer clearly likes sentences, which is awesome.
Glitter by Casey Hannan – Glitter and ghosts combined for a wonderful effect in such a brief piece. Some funny moments too.
Form Rejection Database: Letter S Entries by Ian Golding because it made me laugh out loud. A good read for writers.
How to Feed the Kids by xTx mostly because it led me to a wonderful writer (from what I’ve read that’s available on the web).
Alan Rossi’s “We Saved the Dog” is an awful, wonderful story about our flaws as humans — and as animals. This dog has stayed with me.
Is there a story neater than Casey Hannan’s “Glitter”? There’s a ghost. Leaving glitter. Around his apartment. And then the ending is so heartbreaking. I’d let this narrator open a jar for me any day.
Filled with simultaneous anger and hilarity, “Donald Mason’s City Inspection and the Stakeout Standoff” by Blake Kimzey immediately comes to mind as a top nomination.
I love Tara Laskowski’s “Betta Fish.” I can’t explain how tragic it is.
My favorite story is Robert Smartwood’s “Superman’s Dead”. This line, ““Because I want to see you fly.” just makes me really happy. The whole story makes me happy.
“i have your DVDs please come by and get them thanks” caught my attention with it’s lack of capitalization and punctuation in the title. I’m a sucker for second-person stories, and Pete Zuppardo makes it look easy.
Brandi Wells’ “Navel Oranges,” because it has that particular quality of being surreal yet just realistic enough to trick you into the plausibility of it all. And I guess because I’m into body modification. And fruit. We are all consumers.
“Swan Song” by Melanie Datz is funny, well written, and so true… and she used the word “mimeographs” in a story, which is something I’ve always wanted to do.