I’m glad the day has arrived when both of my Japanese stories can appear in one book, as was intended, and hope that they offer the reader at least a small part of the fascination I feel toward that engaging and perplexing country, at once bustling and contemplative, inviting and aloof, now and always mysterious.
The Night Listener and Others
Copyright © 2015 by Chet Williamson
The right of Chet Williamson to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. Originally published in printed book form by PS Publishing Ltd in 2015. This electronic version published in December 2015 by PS by arrangement with the author. All rights reserved by the author.
FIRST EBOOK EDITION
ISBN 978-1-84863-353-7
This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
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Contents
The Night Listener & Others
Introduction
The Night Listener
Season Pass
Night Deposits
… To Feel Another’s Woe
“Yore Skin’s Jes’s Soft ‘n Purty,” He Said (Page 243)
The Confessions of St. James
The Assembly Of The Dead
The Heart’s Desire
The Pack
The Swing Of The Knife
The Pebbles of Sai-no-Kawara
A Father’s Tears
Jeaves and the Deteriorating Relations
The Smoke in Mooney’s Pub
From the Back Pages
“And So Will I Remember You…”
A Trick of the Light
Marley’s Cat
The Final Verse
Appointed
Silken Words
Blanket Man
Story Notes and Sources
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