Wednesday, August 13, 2008
A Field in the Evening
A Field in the Evening by Karen Bremer Masuda The two men were acutely aware of one another, although neither even knew the other’s name. To Akira, Takeshi was one of those homeless guys. But he looked pretty good for a homeless guy, not even scruffy or un-bathed. Takeshi was just one of those guys...
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Friday, August 8, 2008
A Shell of the Girl continued
He had talked her into Hakone. He said he would put her on a plane to Kanazawa in a week, as soon as they got this drama part in the bag, and before the shooting started. On the way to Hakone she tried to relax, but it was the wrong direction, it simply was the wrong direction. Her stomach still...
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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, August 5, 2008
Into the Deepest Shadows continued
Gonta nodded to the man at the counter sliding into the high stool next to him. It had to be who he was looking for because of the red scarf he was instructed to look for which was tied around the man’s thick neck. This was a coffee shop, a pleasant one in fact, and the man next to him, other than...
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Into the Deepest Shadows
It will be up from August sixth. Darkest Before the Dawn http://darknessbefore.blogspot.com/ Into the Deepest Shadow by Karen Bremer Masuda The light from his cell phone lit up a square area of his face; the bluish white illumination changing him into a ghostly figure in the fading light of this...
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Friday, August 1, 2008
No Strangers in Paradise
No Strangers in Paradise by Karen Bremer Masuda The Emperor is coming! He will bring the Empress with him. For the past two years this flower park has offered its first budding plum blossom of the year to the royal couple, cut delicately and preserved immaculately sent off to them for their...
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
Woven Stories
Here is a link to this story which is up for a week at Poor Mojo's Almanack: http://www.poormojo.org/cgi-bin/gennie.pl?Fiction Here is the story if you miss the week. Woven Stories by Karen Bremer Masuda Tanabe stared, as did every other person on the fifteenth floor in that office of the Tokugawa...
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Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Accepted! The Fringes
This is a re-post but was accepted by a literary magazine, on line and in print. I'll provide the link when it comes out. The Fringes by Karen Bremer Masuda “It would be impossible to define ‘loveless’ for this survey,” she paused for what I thought might be dramatics, but was actually for the sip...
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
A Boy and His Mother, Forever
In five days it will be the anniversary of my Mils death I will leave this up till then in her commemoration. This got one hit last September so it is a re-post. A Boy and His Mother, Forever by Karen Bremer Masuda When he would walk in the door, home from school it was a fact that she would be...
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Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Two Women, a Prince, and Fireworks continued
“I love this place, even without fireworks!” But she turned her body like her friend’s kneeling with her chin on the sprawling back of the chair, waiting. Both women were practically on all fours; for one was almost prone sitting in these chairs. As the next set of fireworks went off Yuusuke looked...
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