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10th & Crime: The Samurai Movie

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No Something is wrong. She tosses aside the sheet and dresses quickly, pulling the things out of her gaping luggage bag. Panties, jeans, a sweater. Natsume is laughing. So, Akiko asks, her mouth in Natsume's black hair. Her eyes shut. Natsume's mouth and fingers on her skin, thrillingly. Does he pay you money? This Junichiro of yours? Finally, she nods a little and says, Hai. So that's it. Natsume is not only a flight attendent but also call girl. Does Jun have other women? No Probably not. She could...

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10th & Crime: Excerpt from FEAST OF VAMPYRES

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Excerpt from FEAST OF VAMPYRES. Charles Park's e-mail to Father Benat Oxtoa, Society of the Blessed Hammer and Stake, nicknamed "the Defrocked Scourge of the Undead," Mexico City, Mexico. I write in the strictest confidence and seriousness to appeal for your help. I have visited your Web site and read the history of your group. I believe you can help me as no one else can or, perhaps, would even wish to. And I am pained to say that our 18 year old daughter, Naomi, has been seduced by a vampire. I became ...

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10th & Crime: Scavengers

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Along the road he found a blind girl. Four years old, maybe, smoke-blackened in a tattered and dirty blue dress, standing under a stunted oak. He coaxed the little girl to come with him. She walked by his side, stumbling a little, clinging to the smoke-and-grease stained sleeve of his coat. Sometimes over the next few days he carried her - fording streams, for example, or hiking up steep stretches of the mountain roads. He put her on his shoulders, and she clung with both fists to his hair. It was only a...

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10th & Crime: Exit Strategy

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Akiko edges out in the hallway first, showing only a few inches of her body until she can verify that it is clear. She's unzipped the bag on her shoulder. Her right hand is inside it, on the grip of the compact machine gun. Safety, off. Index finger inside the trigger guard. She looks up and down the plush-carpeted hallway. Empty. Shoes lined up outside shut doors. She exhales slowly. Lifting her left hand, the elbow jutting straight from her body, she waves Natsume out with her fingertips. Natsume lets ...

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10th & Crime: "I AM THE VOID"

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I AM THE VOID". We see Akiko. She's drinking the rain,. Head upturned, the Tokyo rain. Neon-streaked and shattering on her. Then she walks down the alley. And out onto another street,. Barefoot, staggering a little. People stare at her. As she walks along the night street,. Her hair plastered to her head,. Or dangling in long strands. She squints against the rain. Dripping into her eyes. She walks quickly,. With clear energy and purpose. All her training in Zen. And in the karate dojo. But are there any?

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10th & Crime: The Russian Book Club

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The Russian Book Club. Other than ourselves. Each member we lost was one less liability, if you want to look at it that way. And some of us did. But I personally grieved for our fallen heroes. The young man who put his finger on that unlucky passage close to the end of Anna Karenina. OKAMOTO CRIME, SUSPENSE, ZEN and SAMURAI SWORDS. My AMAZON AUTHOR'S PAGE. The Loneliness of the Blue-Eyed Assassin. Submissions, observations, notes, remarks and queries to: andrewelwilson(at)gmail.com.

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10th & Crime: The Man in the Homburg

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The Man in the Homburg. The man sat on the same bench at the same hour every day, overlooking the gray river. He wore a dark overcoat. Also a Homburg hat. The Homburg had belonged to his grandfather. It was Zurich. The gray river was the Limmat. He kept beside him a nearly flat leather case with silver clasps. This, too, had belonged to the same grandfather. His hair was silver at the sides. There was white speckled all the way through it. His face, gaunt. Every day at the same time, he came to this bench.

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10th & Crime: Ginza, Rain

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Akiko woke as the jet began dropping altitude. The porthole window was dotted with raindrops. The jet tilted and she saw the big wing streaming white vapor. Clouds rolled past, a livid streak of lightning. Tokyo appeared. She stared at it. At the blinking neon, the glass skyscrapers, vast canyons of shadow. Is everything a dream? She left the hotel in the late evening and hailed a taxi on the street. Why not? These are words on a page. I am writing. You are reading. Does it mean anything? She drank an en...

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10th & Crime: Excerpt from AKIKO'S SWORDS

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Excerpt from AKIKO'S SWORDS. They look at each other. Suddenly she's in tears. Then he looks back. He can't help it. He puts down his drink. And goes to her. Like an arrow -. Shot from the void. His lips are on her neck. She writhes. He kisses her cheeks. The sound of the rain. Wild Insane, almost. Slipping her silk blouse open. Jiro kissing her white breasts;. But he doesn't kiss. The ugly, purplish,. He merely gapes at it,. For just an instant,. When Jiro bites one,. Helplessly, to orgasm. He drinks it,.

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DSZ Roshi: Tracing Back the Radiance

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Ancient Zen. Sahaja. Atiyoga. Tracing Back the Radiance. To Live Is To Extend Ki". Student: What is the mind of void and calm, luminous awareness? Chinul: What has just asked me this question is precisely your mind of void and calm, luminous awareness. Why not trace back its radiance rather than search for it outside? For your benefit I will now point straight to your original mind so that you can awaken to it. Clear your minds and listen to my words. Student: At that place, sound and discrimination do n...