Tantra Bensko: Lucid Fiction
New genre of fiction: new genre of reality
You have never seen a heroine like Kundra before.
Kundra is a woman who lives outside society's manipulated rules. She has a love of the ridiculous. And she is stealthily showing others the way out of the carefully controlled matrix. During the course of her life, Kundra faces, and learns to overcome the deceipts of our society.
Kundra's life is full of verve and adventure, ecstatic energies that allow her to heal others, to raise other's Kundalini, to explore ancient serpent mounds, and commune with animals. She is savvy to the deceptions of the world. She rises above the battleground between dual forces, to peak outside the illusion of life itself.
A red headed adventurer who is not bound by what we are led to believe are the limits of human potential.
Kundra begins to live more like an animal. Set in Mexico.
In Soma Literary Review: "Garlic" has Kundra struggling with a logistical problem involving a clove of garlic and a sexy lady whose house Kundra is staying at.
AWARD: Bewildering Stories not only published "Daring with Monks," but also recently awarded it a place as one of the winners of the favorite short stories, placing it in the "First Quarterly Review of 2009."In this story, Kundra takes two Tantric monks across the country if they agree to play Truth or Dare.
Where else can you find miracles and rumbles in the same story? Set in New Mexico. "Sleeping with the Clan of Saints"--at Unlikely Stories
Kundra is invited by the pagan priest to be the priestess of the ancient serpent mound. The serpent mounds were built on ley lines, and in powerful places where they coil, and where the pattern of the sun traces them on equinoxed and solstices. Set in the south.
"Serpentia Iambica" in the current issue of Global Inner Visions--just click on it
Actually, now you must go to the previous issues, or archives, and scroll down to find my name, and click on the individual stories and the interview. My article no longer exists there. A church in Vancouver has opened its doors to homeless drug dealers, prostitutes, irreverent poetry, mind control victims, Kundra's intense art, a motorcycle riding art model, and compassionate mischief.
The Illuminated Dream, in the new print journal, The Alchemy Review
follows Kundra as builds a labyrinth of subtle perceptions, as she lives in the suburban North Vancouver in a tiny dark room with no door, and see the man with the most beautiful walk in the world. Kundra has two phobias. Clowns, and looking at herself in the mirror at the same time as someone else. She shares the make up mirror with a dark porn Klown and her evening begins. Set in San Francisco.
"Rollicking Raggedy" in Global Inner Visions
Kundra goes to a vibratathon, leads nuns in touching the earth at a nuclear site,and shows us her ideal of modern civilization, while wearing turban squash on her breasts. Set in the south.
"Going Out of Context with the New Paradigm"
And three Kundra stories are the fiction feature in Global Inner Visions Ezine, with an interview as well, and a column, in the news section.
"The Illuminated Dream" by print magazine, "Alchemy Review". Kundra tries to survive in civilization. An experimental, lucid fiction story.
"Those Almost Sliced in Two," in Fiction International, is in print. Here we find her sleeping on the floor next to the tranny on the couch of the other tranny's apartment.
My thanks to Victor Thorn, whose magazine, Babel, published many of my short stories, such as "Overreal", "The Vigil Virgin", "Shapeshitting", and "What Do You Do When Nothing is There", as well as the series "Art for Dangerous Times".