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The Free Place
and Other Stories of the Ox and the Wheel
ROB CHAVEZ
Mind is the forerunner. Mind is chief.
All experience is led by mind, made by mind.
Speak or act from confusion,
and suffering follows, wheel behind hoof.
Speak or act from peace,
and happiness follows, a shadow that does not leave.
— after the Dhammapada
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A TRIPTYCH ON ONE VERSE
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Three stories gather here, and though each stands alone, they were written from a single seed: the old verse above, in which the mind lays down a track and the wheel of consequence follows the hoof.
The book is arranged not by length but by the journey it asks of you — grief, then justice, then grace. It begins in the smallest room and widens outward, until a shadow keeps to a living body as it moves toward the light, and does not leave.
THE STORIES
I The Hoofprint and the Wheel A piano tuner climbs three flights to an instrument silenced eleven years, and finds a dying man who has mistaken scarcity for law. II The Free Place — Bell Street In a store where nothing is for sale, a woman learns the difference between a door held open and a door that does not care. III The Free Place — the Ardent In a city governed by an algorithm that places stones before the ox, a grieving man learns that repair is love refusing to stay an emotion.TAKE THE BOOK WITH YOU
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