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In One Picture: D.S. Dehel’s “Matsuri” (Contest)

August 12, 2024 Delilah Devlin

UPDATE: The winner is…Mary Preston! *~*~* “Matsuri” by D.S. Dehel – An American woman searching in Japan for the man haunting her dreams is chased by a wily kitsune into a magical place where she meets a samurai warrior One of the rare times I did a mood board for a project, I stumbled across this image and was struck deeply by what is to me a paradox: I adore fall, but there’s a melancholy atmosphere to this image, a feeling…

3 Days: The Bodyguard by Jacqueline Brocker

October 11, 2014 jacqui

Picking a time and sticking with it One word in the submission call caught my eye: samurai. Now, I thought, that could be interesting. I’d majored in both Japanese and History (a common theme it seems for several of us in the anthology) at university, though I barely speak Japanese now, so the combination of two old loves was very appealing. But when to set the story? Japanese history is vast and varied, and the idea of what a samurai…