For three years tqrstories.com has worked to bring its investors fiction that touches the monkey. Inextricable as the sound of one hand clapping, yet as simple as crossing your fingers, “Touching the Monkey” is impossible to conceptualize, before you read it, but once you do, you’ll just know.

From a coming-of-age hidden horror, to a pedophile and a blind, drug dealing poet, to a virtually indestructible alien agent of death (to name just a few), these works share the ability to captivate, enthrall and waylay you, even as they are keeping you wildly entertained.