Monty Heying's Writings
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Poem
Oct.05.2012
Forum Magazine, fall 2011
From the Wilma Street overpass
a wide black ribbon narrows away curving
through morning haze toward a rose-tinted sky,
disappearing in a milky sea of almond flowers.
In the orchards, geometric rows of
gnarly brown trunks and chorus limbs are
canopied by blushing clouds of
perfume pumping blooms.
And in the cool and muffled stillness
rays of...
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Oct.05.2012
Unpublished
Cowards cling to fairy tales while
the courageous embrace
the soaring potential
of a curious mind.
Memory is a chain of stories
in our heads. And yet
depending on how we’ve matured,
these remnants may be revisited and revised to
yield new and better stories. Therapy?
Sometimes we’re shocked to learn
that what we'd assumed was fact
was in fact someone else’s...
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Poem
Feb.05.2012
We’d pass this field where
Horny toads lived.
How it worked was you'd
Fling one at a girl, and
It would dangle by its claws
From her blouse or sweater
As she squealed and ran.
Janey had a crush on me. Shy,
And aiming to change her mind,
I hurled a thorny lizard. But she,
Being smarter than me,
Just stood there smiling,
So I’d come and get it.
#...
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Poem
Nov.21.2011
Unpublished
Chimney smoke dissolves
into marbled blue hanging
restless over snow-dusted peaks.
Sagging pine boughs,
their needle clusters
choked with ice cotton,
dance a wavering wind ballet,
above a slumbering gallery
of unclothed aspens.
Feathery whiteness, floating, swirling,
like angels in a pillow fight.
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Short Story
Jul.26.2011
Forum Magazine, fall 2011
(c) copywright 2011 al rights reserved
(Fort Worth, Texas, July, 1963)
The doors of the bus knuckle inward as it rumbles to...
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Short Story
Apr.30.2011
Unpublished
(c) 2013, all rights reserved
Prince
(for Sandra)
(Fort Worth, Texas, April, 1957)
Mr. John cooks for sixty-five orphans and their staff. Every morning he gets up at four-thirty, so bedtime is eight o’clock. He turns off the light and listens to Sinatra on the radio, trying to relax.
His corner apartment is at the end of the long wing that...
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Short Story
Feb.04.2011
SYNCHRONIZED CHAOS magazine - March, 2011
© 2012, All Rights Reserved
October, 2009…
So…, you think I should go?” Matt says to the tired-looking woman in the blue wing-backed chair across from him.
“It could be good,” Dr. Werner says after a pause.
Matt notices the way “good” ended on an upward inflection, a sign of doubt. After a year of her weekly therapy sessions he’s gotten the hang of...
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Short Story
Jul.23.2010
Unpublished (2011)
(c) Monty J Heying (all rights reserved)
(Fort Worth, Texas, September, 1959)
After supper, Matt leaves the orphanage dining hall and goes up to the Big Boys’ bathroom where Nomilk and Rasor are smoking by the end window overlooking the stoops. They are older and much larger than him and often hostile, but while he’s at the urinal an idea comes to...
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Short Story
Jun.30.2010
Unpublished
© 2013 Monty J Heying (all rights reserved)
(Fort Worth, Texas, February, 1959)
After Curfew-
It’s night time. There’s no moon. The dim green “Exit” sign over the fire escape door at the far end of the Big Boys dormitory casts a shadowy message onto the ceiling in warped fuzzy letters. Radiators hiss and the pulsing glow from the headlights of...
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Short Story
May.07.2010
Unpublished
© 2012 Monty J Heying (all rights reserved)
(Fort Worth, Texas, November, 1958)
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Real happiness, genius and greatness are achieved only by discovering and remaining true to the inner, primeval and eternal voice of intuition. ...build therefore your own world, and as fast as you conform your life to the pure idea in your mind, that world will unfold its great proportions.”
—R.W. Emerson ("Nature")
About Monty
Originally from Texas, I currently hail from the San Francisco Bay Area. My short stories and poems have won contests and been published in various literary magazines, including Forum and Synchronized Chaos.
My current novel-in-progress is based on my years...
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Monty’s Favorite Books
To Kill A Mockingbird-Lee, Where I'm Calling From-Carver, The Glass Castle-Walls, East of Eden and Of Mice and Men-Steinbeck, The Joy Luck Club-Tan, Sophie's...
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