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This Monkey's Gone to Heaven

by emmett monk

Rated: 18+ · Book · Comedy · #1170600

Don't leave your wife and children to make a no-budget movie.

In "This Monkey's Gone to Heaven" Emmett Monk is an overweight 34-year-old Alaskan bush pilot who impulsively abandons his politician wife and two young children to wildly pursue a sudden dream of making a no-budget movie in Minnesota, only to find the world turn against him and spin out of control.

THIS MONKEY'S GONE TO HEAVEN

Introduction

I’ll say it plain: my mom fell off the roof and broke her neck. It sounds harsh to put it so bluntly and I hope you don’t think I’m insensitive. But that’s how she died; she left this world screaming. In a drunken stupor my mom climbed up onto the rooftop of the farmhouse and by hooting and hollering she tried to get the attention of a deaf man who didn’t even know she existed. We were trying to make our first movie. The accident happened there on the set. I could lie and say that I never think about that day, because it was so god awful, but it isn’t true. Her final scream has been ringing in my ears like I was born and raised with it. Like a congenital birth defect. The priest at her funeral said she was one of God’s special children. But if you and I were God would we want to see our children die that way, falling off rooftops? Wouldn’t it be better to let everyone know a year in advance so they could set things right and on the day they were to die instead of falling to their deaths or getting shot or run over by a car, they’d simply start floating up to heaven and everyone could wave goodbye? Though I suppose in this scenario for some it could be seen as the last chance to finally show your neighbor what you really thought of him, doomed anyway now, soon to be inanimate as a road sign, floating so slowly that the target proves irresistible.
But I’m not here to change the world. For that matter I’m not here to accept it, either, but I’ll try and stick to the facts.
I’m a pilot by trade. This is a love story.

Table of Contents

Chapter	1	Chapter 1, This Monkey's Gone to Heaven	23.65k
Chapter	2	Chapter 2, This Monkey's Gone to Heaven	39.29k
Chapter	3	Chapter 3, This Monkey's Gone to Heaven	15.23k
Chapter	4	Chapter 4, This Monkey's Gone to Heaven	10.50k
Chapter	5	Chapter 5, This Monkey's Gone to Heaven	10.83k
Chapter	6	Chapter 6, This Monkey's Gone to Heaven	19.22k
Chapter	7	Chapter 7, This Monkey's Gone to Heaven	27.69k
Chapter	8	Chapter 8, This Monkey's Gone to Heaven	25.74k
Chapter	9	Chapter 9, This Monkey's Gone to Heaven	12.20k
Chapter	10	Chapter 10, This Monkey's Gone to Heaven	17.70k
Chapter	11	Chapter 11, This Monkey's Gone to Heaven	40.92k
Chapter	12	Part Two, Chapter 12, This Monkey's Gone to Heaven	28.65k
Chapter	13	Chapter 13, This Monkey's Gone to Heaven	11.17k
Chapter	14	Chapter 14, This Monkey's Gone to Heaven	29.56k
Chapter	15	Chapter 15, This Monkey's Gone to Heaven	21.08k
Chapter	16	Chapter16, This Monkey's Gone to Heaven	11.64k
Chapter	17	Chapter 17, This Monkey's Gone to Heaven	15.12k
Chapter	18	Chapter 18, This Monkey's Gone to Heaven	16.98k
Chapter	19	Chapter19, This Monkey's Gone to Heaven	6.10k
Chapter	20	Chapter 20, The End, This Monkey's Gone to Heaven	12.45k

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