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“The Onmyoji’s Wife” is now up at Abyss and Apex

July 1, 2015 by Kate MacLeod

I’ve been so focused on a new thing I’m working on that I nearly missed that my short story “The Onmyoji’s Wife” is now up at Abyss and Apex.

I must have been 8 years old when I first watched the miniseries “Shogun”, and it made a deep impression on me. It’s perhaps second only to Star Wars in its influence on my single-digit years. It was one of the first things I recorded in the VCR days, and I’ve watched it more times than I can count, the last just a few years ago when I showed it to my boys.

And yet when I was older and started reading about Japan, the time period that really grabbed me was before the samurai, before kitanas and kiminos, before even sushi: it was the Heian era. The complex life at court, the many-layered clothing, and especially the onmyoji. And one of the claimants for first novel ever written was from this time period:The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. I’ve written in this time period twice before, with“Tale of a Fox” at A Fly in Amber and with “Blood Ink”, which I posted on my blog here. I’ll probably write more, it’s a rich era.

Please do check it out, and if you enjoy it leave a comment!

“The Onmyoji’s Wife”

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