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Walking Between Walls by Tantra Bensko
Saturday, April 3, 2010
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My experimental story excerpt just now published in Unlikely Stories consists of motifs of odd angles and interactions between different planes of physical reality. It is set in San Francisco, and the location is based on the wonderful house, where, coincidentally, Jaimal Yogi, author of the great Saltwater Buddha, was living.
Inside the hole the size of a cantaloupe in the low, thick, concrete wall were tiny hyper-yellow mushrooms of who- knows-what sort. The middle aged couple in windbreakers strolling past the mushrooms, along with everyone else pursuing the day with the white backdrop, didn’t touch them. But the persimmon colored cat on the wall did, dangling its claws at them and sending the spoor kingdom flying between the sharp curled keratin points.
Alongside the wall, in front of the couple, a boy just a few years old was walking on the wide concrete path, wearing an outfit of subtle greens and touches of other wrinkled colors that continued the more abstract layers on the low concrete wall. If the boy had been walking upright, his head would perhaps have peeked over the top of the wall to see the ocean.
Determined to confront the hazy memories of his troubled youth, Oliver Matthews, a retired detective and confirmed bachelor, returns to the picturesque town of Henley-on-Thames for the first time in years.
