Pity the Living Chapter 02: The Camera Never Lies

By Katsura

Pity the Living Chapter 02: The Camera Never Lies

Having secured a job for Toshita in the office where he works, Masami is left with a dilemma: How can he keep the man he loves from finding out what a dork he truly is?
Masami is a man with a mission.
To fill his woefully dull Facebook page with as many fake pictures as he possibly can...

Part two of Katsura & Yuramei's dark tale of obsession, hate and murder.
**Featuring excerpts from The Gangster and the Samurai, Money, Bullets and Swag, and a character interview with Kanno Sakamoto.**

Pity the Living

When the drudgery of office life becomes too much for IT expert, Masami Shirosaki, he decides to commit suicide. But a timely opportunity to aid the career of the man he has stalked for years, ex-schoolmate Toshita Ayano, stops him in his tracks.

With the beautiful Toshita a temporary yet wonderful distraction in the workplace, life finally seems to be worth living.

Only one thing stands in the way of an idyllic future for Masami.

Toshita's rich and married boyfriend.

Masami, a virgin who's never even kissed a man, has one night of passion with Toshita... only to be callously rejected the following morning.

And so begins a spiral of self-pity and destruction, which ultimately ends in murder.

Can Masami and Toshita find love amidst the clutches of a controlling relationship? Or will one of them become the next target of a killer’s insuppressible hate.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Seishin Ink
• Release date: Mar 2, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311768605

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Pity the Living Chapter 2:

The Camera Never Lies

Katsura & Yuramei

Dedication

All souls, at some point, find themselves in the dark. Thank you, Meena, for allowing me the space to have some light.

Acknowledgements

Thank you to the readers who encouraged us and enjoyed this little story when it was a web novel. Much gratitude as always, to Earthcop, Hiragi, Katie, Alex, Kate, Kimi, Kiera, Emmy, Betrayal, Astrid, Tharayn and all who have supported us in this, a new chapter for Katsura and Yuramei.

Author Note

This story was part published as a web novel from 2012 to 2013. This is a fuller, complete and extended version, which will be released in approximately ten instalments of around five-thousand words each.

Chapter Two

The Camera Never Lies

The bar was crowded with office workers and as Masami and Toshita weaved their way towards a vacant table, Masami noticed the stares that followed them. He lifted his chin and sat down. Always being used to blending in, he strangely enjoyed the novelty of attention. Without a doubt the looks were mostly aimed at Toshita, but a few would have strayed to Masami and probably out of curiosity.

He jutted out his lower jaw and pursed his lips. A trick he’d learned to mask his overbite. That and the constant rubbing of his nose when he spoke. But would people care about his appearance? Would he not simply be lost in the shadows of the heavenly corona which surrounded Toshita?

People watched. Whispered. Unable to catch what they were saying, Masami had no trouble in hazarding a guess at their words:

Who’s the lucky devil about to enjoy the company of the gorgeous young salaryman?

Masami smirked and sat back in his seat.

Toshita took the place close to him.

Shirt sleeve against shirt sleeve. Tie almost touching tie. How phallic these pointless items of clothing now seemed to be. An