Mary Monoky speaks

Writer • Speaker • Exploring the Long Middle

Stories about survival, identity, memory, and the life that continues afterward.

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What Remains

Written & performed by Mary Monoky

Topic: After loss and change, what still holds. (Content note: gentle grief/resilience)
Listen if: You’re rebuilding and want a quiet companion.

https://soundcloud.com/mary-monoky/what-remains-7-28-25?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharingyour text here...

Dinner with the Suits (and rabbit)

Written & performed by Mary Monoky

Topic: Corporate dinner meets comic surprise.
Listen if: You want a light laugh that loosens the tie.

https://soundcloud.com/mary-monoky/dinner-with-the-suits-and-1?si=3b43a96fe6454df6a130cfbcd8fe4688&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing Write your text here...

Naked in the Dark

Written & performed by Mary Monoky

Topic: Chronic illness, fear, identity, survival, emotional reckoning, resilience after crisis

Listen If: You’ve ever lain awake at night wondering how much more you can carry — or found yourself trying to make peace with a life that changed before you were ready.

https://soundcloud.com/mary-monoky/naked-in-the-dark-final?si=333d870d1210460d82c4b2034bbb2524&utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing

Fluffanutter

Written & performed by Mary Monoky

Topic: Childhood memory, comfort food, nostalgia, family, humor, small joys, emotional survival

Listen If: You miss the strange little things that once made life feel safe — or you need a reminder that sometimes comfort arrives wrapped in something as simple as sticky fingers and sweet bread.

https://on.soundcloud.com/PbEe8agUF0ElDVUM5G

Topic: Invisible illness, boundaries, being believed. (Content note: medical/advocacy)


Listen if: You want language for the unseen battle.

https://on.soundcloud.com/baiKVj8WvRJjzLCuDP

You Don't Look Sick

Written & performed by Mary Monoky

The First Thing I Chose to Love

Written & performed by Mary Monoky

Topic: Dogs, devotion, uncomplicated companionship.
Listen if: You want your faith in love (and dogs) restored.

https://on.soundcloud.com/QJTFj8yqvIblsqKIMu

The Sounds That Stay

Written & performed by Mary Monoky

Topic: Memory, sound, identity, childhood, belonging, emotional imprint, sensory memory

Listen If: Certain sounds can still stop you in your tracks — a train in the distance, a screen door closing, a song through another room — and you’ve ever wondered why some memories are carried more by sound than by words.

https://on.soundcloud.com/tryo9fcrIjdzo0y2nQ

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