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    BETWEEN ROCKS and HARD PLACES

    BETWEEN ROCKS and HARD PLACES

    A Journey to Afghanistan’s Wakhan Corridor Sultan Ishkashim, Afghanistan • July 2015 It was an honor killing, we were told. A dispute...
    A BRIEF COLLISION WITH CLOCKOCRACY by Rashani Réa [Foreword]

    A BRIEF COLLISION WITH CLOCKOCRACY by Rashani Réa [Foreword]

    “Every mind state is the journey and our only problem is we don’t trust it.” I read Reggie Ray’s admonition inscribed beneath a single...
    BEYOND BROKENNESS

    BEYOND BROKENNESS

    [ Published in 2009 by Rashani Réa ] “Who’s Rashani?” The sheet of paper had been handed to me thirty seconds earlier by Michele...
    BLUE ICE

    BLUE ICE

    [Published online in 2011, the excerpt above was taken from the 2004 story below.] Thirty feet below the corniced lip of a narrow...
    MELTING POINT

    MELTING POINT

    [Published in 2014, the incident took place on 20 October 1991, in Oakland, California.] At 212 degrees Fahrenheit, the water in wood...
    The THRONE of SHIVA

    The THRONE of SHIVA

    [Published in 2000, this is an expanded account of the Mt. Kailash kora of 1994, first described in The Last Place on Earth.] Crossing an...
    BEHOLD the MAN

    BEHOLD the MAN

    [Published in 2009, based on experiences at the Burning Man festival in 2007.] Just past Gerlach, a gritty mining town about 100 miles...
    The JAMARAT

    The JAMARAT

    [Published in 2003, Jordan Rosenfeld, ed., based on events that took place during the Hajj pilgrimage in Makkah, Sa'udi Arabia in March...
    DEATH RIDE

    DEATH RIDE

    [Published in 2008, Death Ride won "Best in Category–Sports and Challenge." The event took place in July of 2001.] It’s not about your...
    The SPACE BETWEEN

    The SPACE BETWEEN

    [Published in 2000, the events in this story took place in September 1998.] In late June of 1921, two members of a British reconnaissance...
    BACK into the HEART of DARKNESS

    BACK into the HEART of DARKNESS

    [First published in 1989 by the Institute for Research in Metapsychology, this piece was included in a 2003 anthology on the treatment of...
    The RAVENS and the VIRGIN

    The RAVENS and the VIRGIN

    [Published in 2000, the events in this story took place in September 1997.] In the northern Greek province of Macedonia, protruding like...
    The LAST PLACE on EARTH

    The LAST PLACE on EARTH

    [Published in the 1997 premiere issue, the events in this story took place in May of 1994.] In June of 1936, an Austrian adventurer...
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