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    Fight and Flight: From "Short Cuts", a short story collection
    Fight and Flight: From "Short Cuts", a short story collection
    Fight and Flight: From "Short Cuts", a short story collection
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    Fight and Flight: From "Short Cuts", a short story collection

    By Erik Boman

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    In Kyoto, a modern-day businessman and a despairing samurai are separated by centuries – but joined by ancestry and a mutual watershed moment...
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    Erik Boman is a writer from Oxford. He is the author of "Short Cuts" and was awarded the A.M. Heath literary prize in 2011.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherErik Boman
    Release dateApr 9, 2015
    ISBN9781310492563
    Fight and Flight: From "Short Cuts", a short story collection
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    Erik Boman

    Erik Boman is a writer based in Oxford, UK, where he shares a tiny house with his fiancée, two riotous daughters, a nutty dog and a sociopathic cat. When the sun is up, he designs for a travel website. At night, he writes, or wants to. His bookshelf is a tumultuous mess of speculative fiction, but at its epicentre are Neil Gaiman and William Gibson. The keywords for anything he writes are 'not here' - he's a friend of any text that takes the reader out of this world, and away to other places. Sometimes even nice places.

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      Fight and Flight - Erik Boman

      Fight and Flight

      by Erik Boman

      Published October 2014

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This eBook may not be resold or given away to other people. If you wish to share this book with another person (other than lending it to her or him), please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you are reading this eBook and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, please return it to Amazon.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the work of this author.

      This eBook uses some actual locations and family names, however all events are fictionalized and all persons appearing in this work are fictitious. Any resemblance to real people, living, dead or spanning centuries, is entirely coincidental.

      Cover image montage by Erik Boman

      Copyright © 2014 Erik Boman

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      Fight and Flight

      Kyoto, 2010

      The elevator shot skywards outside Hotel Mawasu.

      Encased in the bubble of steel and glass, Hiro Watanabe stood pressed against other guests with the vinyl floor pushing at his feet. Around him skyscrapers tapered to needlepoints as they seemed to sink in the city’s evening neon sea. Condensation formed patterns on the window, blurring

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