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Erik Wennermark is the author of the Falun Gong inspired novella The True Story of Yu Fen, short-story collection Evil Men: Short Stories, and collection of Hong Kong essays Umbrella Blossom. His nonfiction on topics as varied as free jazz, the death rattle of an Indian guru, and murderous Hmong, is likewise dispersed on the web and beyond. ...more

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Poe

Short post on Poe and a short story of mine here.

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The Day of the Jackal

by Frederick Forsyth

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“Rehearse your death every morning and night. Only when you constantly live as though already a corpse (jōjū shinimi) will you be able to find freedom in the martial Way, and fulfill your duties without fault throughout your life.”
― Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

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“a swarthy young wench who had marked anomalies of feature and seemed to exude a perpetual odor of fish.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Thing on the Doorstep

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“You seem to know a hell of a lot about everything, you little foreign cock duck.”
― Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

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