Tantra Bensko: Lucid Fiction
New genre of fiction: new genre of reality
I collect my own stories into two manuscripts, one about a character named Kundra, in another section, and one that is simply all experimental, mostly Lucid Fiction, which you find on this page. My writing appears in numerous print magazines, and here is a smattering of places you can see them online.
These on this page are in a manuscript called Lucid Windows. Some stories are 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 often go more irreal than that series, at times.
I've won awards with my writing, such as the Editor's Prize Award by Cezanne's Carrot and their Journeys Award for my short story, etc.
Upcoming:
"Recursive Inside Glass" in Bewildering Stories.
"The Quantum Fool" in an anthology about Quantum Fiction edited by V. Ulea, called The Quantum Genre on the Planet of the ARts, put out by Crossing Chaos.
"Notes from the Nipple Saint" in the Surreal South Anthology 2, put out by Press 53, available now
Some Available:
Story in The Fabulist, called "A Roadfull of Ducks.".
"Arched Doorways and Red Wine" in print, in The recent Journal of Experimental Fiction, which is put out by Eckhard Gerdes.
Award! My story, "The Quantum Fool", won the Journies Competition in Cezanne's Carrot, Winter Solstice Issue, Dec. 21, 2008. They also published a second story by me as well in the same issue, "The Terrace Steps".
"Shake Up" is in the print issue of Sein Und Werden.
The Prize, in Unlikely Stories
Time expands outward from the center, and going beyond the story is our reward.
The Accidental Voyeur in Mad Hatters Review. I'd recommend it. A humorous romp with with the windows of lucidity.
Photoluminassance, in Poor Mojo's Almanac, is a wild romp with a tattoo artist who invented glow in the dark tattoos, and teams up with a man who paints with a hair regrowth cream on people's bodies. They create a show like you've never seen before!
The rambunctious, ridiculously zany sequel,"Hairlyzation," is in Poor Mojo's Almanac(k) issue 427.
My story, Those Almost Sliced in Two is in the new Fiction International in print.
Stop Before It's Too Late in The Fabulist Nov. 23 2008
Tales of the Natural in The Fabulist
Garlic in SomaLit
These on this page are in a manuscript called Lucid Windows. Some stories are 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 often go more irreal than that series, at times.
I've won awards with my writing, such as the Editor's Prize Award by Cezanne's Carrot and their Journeys Award for my short story, etc.
Upcoming:
"Recursive Inside Glass" in Bewildering Stories.
"The Quantum Fool" in an anthology about Quantum Fiction edited by V. Ulea, called The Quantum Genre on the Planet of the ARts, put out by Crossing Chaos.
"Notes from the Nipple Saint" in the Surreal South Anthology 2, put out by Press 53, available now
Some Available:
Story in The Fabulist, called "A Roadfull of Ducks.".
"Arched Doorways and Red Wine" in print, in The recent Journal of Experimental Fiction, which is put out by Eckhard Gerdes.
Award! My story, "The Quantum Fool", won the Journies Competition in Cezanne's Carrot, Winter Solstice Issue, Dec. 21, 2008. They also published a second story by me as well in the same issue, "The Terrace Steps".
"Shake Up" is in the print issue of Sein Und Werden.
The Prize, in Unlikely Stories
Time expands outward from the center, and going beyond the story is our reward.
The Accidental Voyeur in Mad Hatters Review. I'd recommend it. A humorous romp with with the windows of lucidity.
Photoluminassance, in Poor Mojo's Almanac, is a wild romp with a tattoo artist who invented glow in the dark tattoos, and teams up with a man who paints with a hair regrowth cream on people's bodies. They create a show like you've never seen before!
The rambunctious, ridiculously zany sequel,"Hairlyzation," is in Poor Mojo's Almanac(k) issue 427.
My story, Those Almost Sliced in Two is in the new Fiction International in print.
Stop Before It's Too Late in The Fabulist Nov. 23 2008
Tales of the Natural in The Fabulist
Garlic in SomaLit
Some more 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 Pick 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
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.
Many sitings of Sasquatch have occurred in rural Alabama....
Just to Explain the Sasquatch Sitter
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
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