John Gibbon
ASIN: B00AMLW0W8
Publisher: Essential Art
Pages: 8
A Japanese Detective takes his own life in a forest. A beautiful English Spy is betrayed and hung beside him, but she invokes a Greek Goddess as she dies. Artemis intervenes and attempts to change their fate.Episode 1 in the Aokigahara Forest series of short stories.Copyright © Essential Art, Exmouth England RebirthAn antique, gold light slanted down through the green forest leaves, while a herd of roe deer grazed quietly in a clearing. From a spreading oak in the centre of that clearing a young woman hung, her fire-gold hair floating in the bright summer air. Her sightless eyes gazed down at a young Japanese man in a grey suit, who lay in a widening pool of dark blood. His lifeless hand still clutched a black, automatic pistol. Into that silence between life and death stepped two Goddesses. “You cannot interfere, they are both mine,” said the first.“But she cried out to me as she ...