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The Ghost of Lady Rei

Lace and Blade 5Marion Zimmer Bradley Literary Works Trust (February, 2019) When Paradox Magazine closed its doors, I despaired of ever selling another Ken’ichi and Master Shichiro story. Where does one even sell Medieval Japanese detective stories? To the lovely people with Lace & Blade it turns out. In this installment, the duo are called […]

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Kitsune

Paradox Magazine 2006 Kitsune was the second story I wrote in the series about Master Shichiro and his servant Ken’ichi. I started this one with no idea of a plot, I just wanted to keep writing about Master Shichiro and Ken’ichi, two characters I had a great deal of fun with. So I put Keni’chi […]

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The Three Truths

Paradox Magazine 2005 The Three Truths was not a story I wanted to write. Don’t get me wrong, I thought the idea of a historical samurai detective story was great, but as I knew absolutely bugger all about Japan in general and even less about the samurai class in particular, the amount of research required […]

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