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BETWEEN ROCKS and HARD PLACES

A BRIEF COLLISION WITH CLOCKOCRACY by Rashani Réa [Foreword]

BEYOND BROKENNESS

BLUE ICE

MELTING POINT

The THRONE of SHIVA

BEHOLD the MAN

The JAMARAT

DEATH RIDE

The SPACE BETWEEN

BACK into the HEART of DARKNESS

The RAVENS and the VIRGIN

The LAST PLACE on EARTH

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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...

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