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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Smitten continued
One day Yukimasa, in reaching the outer parameters of his patience for math, slid his notebook and text book off and away from him to the very edges of his desk and pulled out his sketch book from the top desk drawer. He sighed loudly shaking his head in short little movements and sighed again....
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Smitten
Smitten by Karen Bremer Masuda The storm in the fall of 1952 hit the tiny village of Yaizu, Japan full force, recalling to the memory of those who lived through it, two things; the damage caused by it, and the baby born through it. The more outstanding of the two memories varied according to the...
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Monday, October 20, 2008
The Stinging Fly
The Stinging Fly by Karen Bremer Masuda Kazue did a double take in the sauce section of the supermarket. There was someone in her peripheral, nothing amazing in that, but when she glanced up seeing a foreign woman twice her size, she had to look again after placing her purchase into the basket...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Mr. No No continued
One time he took my hand and read my palm. He followed the lines of my palm with his finger sending chills down my spine. He still hadn’t said anything when he looked up to find me gazing into his eyes. We were silent for a while till he gently let go of my hand and sat back. ‘You have a lovely...
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Mr. No No
Mr. No-no I was at my favorite place. I guess if you go somewhere enough, and you go unaware and unintentionally, things like this can happen. Mind you, all my life nothing like this has ever happened. From the time when I was a wee teen longing for someone to ask me to dance at those silly school...
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Saturday, October 4, 2008
The Summer of my Japanese Palace
The Summer of my Japanese Palace by Karen Bremer Masuda There was big Toshiko san and small Toshiko san, these names had nothing to do with their standing in the hierarchy of The Japanese Palace, but with the physical difference of their size. The hierarchy of the restaurant had everything to do...
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Thursday, September 25, 2008
First Date, a Novel excerpt (continued)
The girls stood huddled together outside the music room doors, turning to face the two boys as they approached. Yukimasa stood in front but the two girls stood side by side. Toshio bobbed his head at Erika and stepped up so that he was only a little behind his friend. Yukimasa once more gave his...
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First Date, a Novel excerpt
How did she do this to him? His insides were swelling like the cotton candy around the stick at any festival in the world. But it forced him to concentrate too; Yukimasa’s fight for control sent him running as fast as he could at the track meets, sent him scurrying to help draw posters for the pep...
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Monday, September 15, 2008
What is Proper
The funeral had been over for two weeks when I entered the drinking establishment which my two friends and I occasionally visited. It was May, and in June the sky would weep for a month. The mirrors behind the bar with the liquor stacked on shelves on two sides reflected the ceiling fans and the...
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