Tantra Bensko: Lucid Fiction

New genre of fiction: new genre of reality

These stories are predominantly experimental, some New Wave Fabulism, some conceptual, some multidimensional. Some are zany, funny stuff. Some push the boundaries in subject matter as the Kundra stories do as well. These beyond the realism of that series, however.

new The Prize, in Unlikely Stories
Time expands outward from the center, and going beyond the story is our reward.

The Accidental Voyeur
is just out, in Mad Hatters Review. I'd recommend it. A humorous romp with with the windows of lucidity.




"Rose Garden," in Rose and Thorn Magazine.
upcoming--stories in Fiction International.

 Some recent publications of short stories in surreal, experimental magazines:

The Solstice issue of Cezanne's Carrot not only published a multidimensional story, The Boy Who Was a Floating Flower, they gave it the Editor's Pic Prize.

 Lit Chaos has a fun interview with me as well as a story called The History of Sesame Oil.


The Sound of Colors Calls my Name Taweetly Woo in Sein und Werden issue 12


Emerging Visions Sacred Earth Issue, 7. "Dead Faint." about halfway down the page. This one one is magical realism.


"Instructions to Take Notes on Before the Ink Runs Out"
is in the visionary magazine, http://emergingvisions.blogspot.com , halfway down the page. Electric Dreams, which is issue 6, Feb. 2007. The previous issue contain three of my art pieces.

http://www.madhattersreview.com/issue7/columns.shtml#bensko is my short short surreal, experimental story as my column for the Feb. 2007 issue of Mad Hatters Review.


and see the link below for another surreal experimental short story, in The Angler.

The multiverse

I'm happy that one of my experimental stories, my favorite type, has been published in Angler Magazine. This one is called the Quantum Fool, about the nature of consciousness, parallel realities, very experimental. The Quantum Fool in Angler

Sasquatches are pretty darn lovable.

The ability to read with other parts of the body without eyes has been documented.

These characters take full advantage of such delights.

These two are fun, whimsical stories. Have a giggle. Nothing is more subversive than play.

She had read Paul Bachy-Rita's work on people reading with their arm pits and knew she needed to make even more of a splash.

Notes from the Nipple Saint

Many sitings of Sasquatch have occurred in rural Alabama....

Just to Explain the Sasquatch Sitter

{See the current issue of Southern Hum magazine. Note the art on the cover is mine, as is the rest of the art as I am the featured artist}

the sasquatch story, first published in Ten Thousand Monkeys

                                

An imaginary band infiltrates civilized reality and goes a little too far.
Magdyline shares the same sense many of us have that humanity is being encroached upon by something only pretending to be human. Something dark, and ridiculous. The Inhabitants of Mercy    in Retort Magazine.




This short story has been changed to a Kundra story for the collection, Free Range Mystery Spot

"One time, the flames in our palms led us astray. I think they were feverish. They were feeling constrained by the colors in our palette of desire, too green, too leafy. They wanted more red, and they directed us into a kind of bordello of the im