Saturday, January 3, 2009
Excerpt
Backbones and Pillars Chapter Sixteen Chapter 16 Takuya From the moment we arrived there was something to do. It wasn’t like we were asked to do anything or even if we wanted to do anything. School wasn’t an issue but the summer was already over. We simply didn’t go. But there was always something...
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Thursday, December 18, 2008
Riding the Sweet Bean Fish to Heaven (continued)
‘How long have you been here?’ ‘All Japanese want to know that, why is that?’ I felt the satisfaction of this generalized question, like the ones that were always thrown at me, so that the next bite I took smugly. ‘Do people over there eat taiyaki?’ ‘Where’s over there?’ It was my turn to laugh...
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Riding the Sweet Bean Fish to Heaven
Riding the Sweet Bean Fish to Heaven by Karen Bremer Masuda I rounded the corner with sweet bean paste and grilled batter wafting on the air. At six thirty in the morning, my heart fluttered with curiosity; why at this time in the morning? I forged ahead to get a better look only to be pulled back...
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Wednesday, December 10, 2008
The Ladies and the Girls
THE LADIES AND THE GIRLS by Karen Bremer Masuda How long will it take for the doctor to see me? This waiting room is full. I slump down in the chair next to the bench and glance down the row of people sitting there. I grab a magazine, sigh, shift around in my seat and am suddenly acutely conscious...
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Saturday, November 29, 2008
Presumed Safe
Presumed Safe by Karen Bremer Masuda There was a dull thud. Just a thud, no screeching of breaks, nothing but a kind of soft thud and no sounds like a gasp or a groan to elude that there was a human body involved. Not even a tiny three year old body. Even so, everyone had to have heard it because it...
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
A Shell of the Girl Continued
The sound of excited chatter awoke her. She sat up and moved to the railing of the veranda. It was beautiful. How could she have sat there and not noticed any of this, the sparkling lake with Mt. Fuji towering over it? There was a viewing telescope in the corner which she also hadn’t noticed. She...
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A Shell of the Girl
A Shell of the Girl by Karen Bremer Masuda She regained her soul. But for her to reach this point had taken more pain than she cared to remember. Subsequently, the pain didn’t subside with her self discovery, but she realized in the nick of time and was on the road to herself. It was her voice at...
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Tuesday, November 11, 2008
Threaded
Threaded by Karen Bremer Masuda She swayed on her feet, which were only a meter from the bus stop sign. She shook her head in an effort to keep from toppling over. It was the kind of day she hated, the heaviness of it made her feel sick to her stomach. She was late, as she often was these days. This...
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Trash Thrash
Trash Thrash The curse It is a curse, being married to the first son, it is a curse, but how was I to know. Back then when I was young and in love, how was I to know the curse lurking in the shadows waiting for me years down the line. It only barred its thorny head when the mil got cancer. Before,...
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Thursday, October 30, 2008
Smitten continued to the end
Yukimasa ran the laps at the head of his PE class. He was fast and had been recruited unsuccessfully for the track and field team. He didn’t want to dedicate his life to early morning practices. Besides he was attracted to cigarettes and although he had only smoked them a couple of times he thought...
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