MonkeyTales

MonkeyTales

By D.J. SylvisSociety & CultureFiction
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MonkeyTales episodes

  • Episode 2: “Super”

    On a busy city corner stands a guy in a Superman suit, taking pictures with tourists and asking for donations. You gotta be a little strange to choose that for your day to day, right?

    This episode features Martin Chodorek and was written by D.J. Sylvis.

    MonkeyTales cover art is by Cora May. Our theme song is “Follow the Muse,” by Deborah Linden.

    You can find more information on our website, or on Twitter under Monkeyman Productions or MonkeyTales. Our Patreon backers make the show possible – join them in support of independent audio fiction at https://www.patreon.com/monkeymanproductions; we’ve got some great perks including early access to all our shows and behind-the-scenes glimpses at what’s coming next.

    Thanks so much for listening to our second story! Next month we’ll have “Chance,” coming to you on February 9th. All the hopepunk to you and your friends, family, acquaintances, coworkers, random strangers …

    12 min
  • Episode 1: “Stars”

    Stars is a conversation between two nonbinary lovers who have never met, brought closer by the universe that surrounds them both.

    This episode features Sena Bryer and Cole Burkhardt; and was written by D.J. Sylvis.

    MonkeyTales cover art is by Cora May. Our theme song is “Follow the Muse,” by Deborah Linden.

    You can find more information on our website, or on Twitter under Monkeyman Productions or MonkeyTales. Our Patreon backers make the show possible – join them in support of independent audio fiction at https://www.patreon.com/monkeymanproductions; we’ve got some great perks including early access to all our shows and behind-the-scenes glimpses at what’s coming next.

    Thanks so much for listening to our first story! Next month we’ll have “Super,” coming to you on January 9th. Happy holidays if that’s your thing, and good hopepunk adventures to all!

    13 min
  • MonkeyTales – Final Trailer!

    Hi ho, D.J. Sylvis here, from Monkeyman Productions. We’re less than two weeks away from launching MonkeyTales, our new hopepunk audio fiction anthology series, and I am so, so, so excited to share these stories with you. Here’s another peek at what we’ve got in store:
    Episode 1, coming December 9th, is a short contemporary piece called “Stars,” featuring Sena Bryer and Cole Burkhardt, about two long-distance non-binary loves looking up at the night sky together:
    Clip from Episode 1, “Stars”, featuring Sena Bryer and Cole Burkhardt; written by D.J. Sylvis
    The second episode, January 9th – you might see a pattern emerging here, 9 was my lucky number when I was a kid – is a monologue called “Super,” featuring Martin Chodorek, one of our company’s founding members, and it’s a story about one of those folks who dress up in a costume and greet passers-by on street corners – and the costume he’s chosen is a very special one:
    Clip from Episode 2, “Super”, featuring Martin Chodorek; written by D.J. Sylvis
    Next in March – yes, March 9th, we’ll be moving into the future with Chance, a story of a scout ship orbiting a far-off planet, and the two friends who are thrown together on this mission. It features Tina Daniels and Danielle Shemiah:
    Clip from Episode 3, “Chance”, featuring Tina Daniels and Danielle Shemaiah; written by D.J. Sylvis
    We aren’t quite finished recording the episode after that, which will be a full-on superhero universe story, but a fairly domestic one, called “Fortress of Solitude.” But what I do have right now are a couple of the cameos for that episode – there’s going to be a lot of flipping television channels in the background, and we’re going to hear some fun bits of what’s on:
    Clips from Episode 4, “Fortress of Solitude”, featuring Steven LaFond, Mandy Hall, and Dallas Wheatley
    And that’s where we’ll leave it for now. But there are definitely plans, and stories, to come after that – we’re hoping to keep up our monthly schedule for a good run, and eventually to bring some other creators into the fold as well. I hope you’re intrigued by what you’ve heard – you can add us to all your podcast apps now, watch out for monthly episodes beginning December 9th, and we’ll go on some hopepunk adventures together. I truly can’t wait.
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    You can find MonkeyTales online at monkeymanproductions.com. You can follow us on Twitter, and follow Monkeyman Productions on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram for updates. Finally, if you want to help support this sort of storytelling and get great perks including early access to episodes, you can become one of our backers at patreon dot com slash monkeymanproductions.
    MonkeyTales cover art is by Cora May. Our theme song is “Follow the Muse,” by Deborah Linden.
    6 min
  • Coming in December from Monkeyman Productions!

    Hey folks! Your friendly Monkeyman here, D.J. Sylvis, with a quick message about all the stuff the company has coming to you in December! This will go out on both feeds, Moonbase Theta, Out and MonkeyTales, so my apologies if you hear it twice!
    First of all, we’ll be coming to the end of Season 2 with Moonbase Theta, Out, with final episodes on December 8th and 22nd – of course, if you hear this when it’s released there will still be one before that as well, but we’re almost to the close of the season. There’s a LOT happening in those last few episodes, I really can’t wait for you to hear them, and I think they’ll add quite a bit to what you already know of what happens in this story. Also note there will be three post-season bonus episodes, we’ve announced those on Twitter – that was on our MTO birthday, which was a lot of fun and I hope you saw some of that – anyway, those won’t start showing up until January so they can wait a bit. We’re talking about December!
    On December 9th we launch MonkeyTales, our new hopepunk audio fiction anthology series! The first episode is a sweet little geeky piece called Stars, about two non-binary long-distance loves looking up at the night sky together, it features Sena Bryer and Cole Burkhardt, and I’m absolutely in love with both their performances. You aren’t going to want to miss this, or the other stories we have to tell – so jump into your app and add it to your subscription list. It should be available pretty much everywhere by this point, and the trailer is in there to check out.
    Finally, and I guess this is the big reveal of this message – near the end of the month we’re launching a special miniseries just for our Patreon backers. It’s called, “Moonbase Theta, Out – Before the Moon,” and it’s going to be just what it sounds like – a series of six flashback episodes focusing on our Base Theta residents back when they were still on Earth! We’ll see Michell before he was sent up, Roger and Alex having an evening in the garden at home … we’ll even see the return of Dr. Ringling and Dr. Day from our last flashback episode! These stories will go up once a month to our Patreon backers at the $5 level and above, as a special thank you for their part in making the show possible. And those episodes will be available exclusively to our Patreon for at least six months before they show up anywhere else. We’ve already started rehearsing and recording for this project, it’s going to be big fun and reveal a lot about the Moonbase crew. And as always, every dollar we make through our Patreon goes back to the creative folks making our shows possible. (You can join our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/monkeymanproductions.)
    So there we are! Moonbase Theta, Out coming to the end of Season 2; the launch of MonkeyTales with our first episode, “Stars,” and the launch of our Patreon miniseries. It’s going to be a big month for audio fiction! We couldn’t do any of it without you – you’re the tardigrades in our Moonbase, the Monkeys in our Tale, thank you so much and we’ll see you again very soon!

    Background music is “Blush” from the band Ramp. Before the Moon cover art is by Peter Chiykowski.
    4 min
  • MonkeyTales – Coming Soon!
    MONKEYTALES A hopepunk audio fiction anthology series , starting in December from Monkeyman Productions. What is MonkeyTales? (What are MonkeyTales?) It’s a monthly ongoing seriesRead More
    5 min

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MonkeyTales – a hopepunk audio fiction anthology series