Two Zen Monks
By Barry Rachin
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Sarah is travelling to rural Maine to visit an old friend, Midge Parker, who disappeared under peculiar circumstances almost a decade earlier. She drives 400 miles only to discover that Midge has moved on again without leaving any forwarding address. But the journey's end offers an unexpected revelation.
Barry Rachin
About the AuthorBorn in Boston, Massachusetts, Barry Rachin spent several years stationed in Yokuska, Japan as a Navy medic caring for casualties during the Vietnam War. He has studied at the University of Jerusalem, lived on a kibbutz for a year and holds a degree in clinical counseling from Simmons College. A self-taught woodworker, he presently lives in Attleboro, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters.
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Two Zen Monks - Barry Rachin
Two Zen Monks
Barry Rachin
Published by Barry Rachin, 2019.
This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are entirely coincidental.
TWO ZEN MONKS
First edition. November 25, 2019.
Copyright © 2019 Barry Rachin.
Written by Barry Rachin.
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Two Zen Monks | by | Barry Rachin
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Two Zen Monks
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Barry Rachin
Two Zen monks climbing a hill on their way to the monastery, notice a geisha waiting by the side of the road. A rain storm the previous night has transformed the street into a minefield of slippery mud and puddles, so that the woman is unable to reach the tea house without soiling her pretty kimono and shoes."
The older monk tells the geisha,
Climb on my back and I’ll carry you up the hill. She agrees and off they go. A few hundred yards up the mountain, the older monk lets the woman down in front of the tea house. The geisha thanks him profusely and the monks continue on to the Buddhist temple. Just before they enter the shrine, the first monk turns to his friend and says,
‘About that Geisha..."
How is it that you are still carrying the woman,
the older monk replies, when I left her at the tea house five minutes ago?
Anonymous
Got a map of Maine lying about anywhere?
Sarah Portman asked. They had just returned from the market and the older woman was