Lucid Membrane
Lucid Membrane
Tantra Besko (author)
Product Description
Lucid Membrane includes stories for the whole self, from subconscious absurdities to zany narratives of characters making their way in the ordinary world in unique ways, to expansive explorations of the larger levels of the aura. You'll find intersection parallel and past lives, quantum mysticism. You'll also find a Sasquatch, which a young rural woman employs to take care of her aging father until a riot breaks out, a southern woman who practices her ability to read the warmth of red letters with her skin on her breasts, a sensual woman facing the dangers of death defying passion for a Klown, a tattoo artist and hair artist who team up to create a bizarre circus of freaks.
Night Publishing put out this book which includes the challenges of literary innovation, ambitious explorations of the nature of consciousness, and Lucid Fiction ideals that contradict the mainstream. Lucid Membrane exists in black and white form, and a full color form, which includes 3 stories made of colored words within the text of the rest of the book. A password in the text unlocks the Secret Womb online, where many other stories can be coaxed out by those who want to interact with new forms of literature, such as Calender Fiction.
Product Details
Ebook
File Size: 168 KB
Print Length: 130 pages
Simultaneous Device Usage: Unlimited
Publisher: Night Publishing (August 13, 2011)
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services
Language: English
ASIN: B005HAB1FQ
Available at Amazon.com and Smashwords.
Paperback
Paperback: 180 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace (August 11, 2011)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1466209992
ISBN-13: 978-1466209992
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 10.2 ounces
Available at Amazon.com (color version) and Amazon.com (black&white) .
Review
Tantra Bensko's Lucid Membrane is a collection of stories poised in sincere vision. This book will follow you, haunt you, possess you, and grasp you with its equality. The prose within these pages seduces and lingers; it's like reading a non-existent cubist painting , a rendition so to speak, of a world that hangs between worlds. I have long been a fan of Bensko's work; I love her narrative flow, her command and construction of the non-linear language. I receive books from her on a regular basis and have witnessed firsthand, her development and growth as a writer, and I have not been able to put down her work yet. I highly recommend Lucid Membrane. Tantra Bensko is a writer of the first order, and simply put, her words need to be read."
By B.L. Kennedy
Review by: Kenneth Wayne
As the many reviewers quoted in the first few pages of Lucid Membrane, I love this intriguing collection of stories. It starts off with a surreal situation of a man in a yellow suit witnessing lucid windows being washed with cream. For some reason, it bought back warm recollections of Brautigan’s In Watermelon Sugar. Perhaps, the seemingly simple sentence structure and word play interwoven with an underlying humor and dreamlike atmosphere of windows that “turn their backs to be washed on the other sides” bring out a very similar playful reading experience. In the same story (“The Accidental Voyeur”), Besko is able to get me to recall a Danish folktale about a fat cat that tries to eat everything it sees. Simply, this first story is a delight and a great beginning to a potpourri that weaves through the fringes of the reader’s peripheral vision in which other worlds or extra dimensions may be accessible to flirtations with rather straight-forward, in-your-face musings like that of a young woman as she decides what best to wear to a concert/happening in which she is to perform as a broken doll with a clown she knows who claims he “couldn’t stop fantasizing about killing women.” Include with this a feverish story of a lonely woman who falls in love with a female Sasquatch she encounters in the woods and subsequently coaxes to be a care-giver for her senile father. Then there are ducks and stories full of hallucinogenic visions that help the reader touch for a moment out-of-the-body realities. Of course, I cannot forget the playing cards tattooed on the asses of self-coined dorks and geeks in high school. Sound like a ride you want to take? So is, buy this book and enjoy.
