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 Excerpt from my novel FATE ......                                                                     The Rains                   Where is all this rain coming from? It rained nonstop for the last couple of weeks. The rain was not your normal clap‑a‑de‑clap type of rain, but continuous rain pouring down with biting cold winds blowing squalls in from the northwest, with the subdued effect of lace curtains concealing a sun shining somewhere else, but not there. That very same sun also rises and sets there too. It's what it has been doing since Day One. It will never go away because it has nowhere to go and will be there long after the rain has gone.  ''Isn't it lovely to think so. Where is all this rain coming from?''  F...

 Excerpt from my novel FATE.   Who's that Comes to Play...                                            The farmhouse stood eerily still on the paddie hillside, shrouded in a thick, swirling mist that hung to the ground like some living entity, its bamboo door half open. The widow could sense Yurei dancing with defiance within the sulfurous-smelling mist, flickering in and out of existence as if the very core of their domain was trying to break through to the Now.        As she stepped forward, she called out the family name, but only the whispering wind answered. The ground beneath her feet felt saturated and slimy, as if she were walking between two realms. She knew that texture, the liminal zone between life and death where she had often gone before to seek guidance from the spirits.        The fenced-in compound was...