Fitting tribute to the brutality of such a way of doing business. Tragic, especially having the daughter also die.

Well done!

Well done!

everyone dies, the end.
at least he gave them some honor..
an assassin’s life is never dull..
And Nether of Less is clever. ;)

lol how is that working out for me?…being clever

Mmm.. awesome.

thanks RPS

i love your edo period stories, in my opinion they are always the best ones. you are soooo amazing. i just want to use this space right no to let everyone know how incredible my husband is, as if you cant tell by his writing he is truly a genius and the sweetest sweety head in the world…and his body really is like model hot, you wouldn’t believe it. i can hardly believe my good fortune in getting such a great catch…well i mean maybe i can cause im really cool too so i guess it is just natural right? anyway great story. and i love you.

Excellent stuff, that’s one honorable assassin! Fulfilling a contract even though the person who hired him is dead, so they can’t complain if he doesn’t complete. And the additional weight of killing the employer, who might have provided additional work in the future!

Joe, yer an enigma still but you can definitely spin some good tales!

very nicely done, creative plot you have. good job :)

Not meaning to nitpick, but I just couldn’t leave it alone. It’s nevertheless, a) Never, not nether and b) I know it’s weird, but it’s all one word.

Sorry, I’m a terrible pedant. Forget I was here… :)

How much did you pay your wife to say that?

(Just so I know a baseline to work from when I get my wife to do the same)

This is nice work, MJY. Edo Japan is a very inspirational era. I fully expected the little girl to kick the assassin’s butt, though. ;)

@orinoco in the comments apoc said nether the less and i said it would be funny if it was a proper noun Nether of The House Of Less
Hey did we just catch you committing the fatal flaw of commenting without reading the story, i think we just did i dont envy the egg that must be on your face not only did you not read the story but you only read the title and then got caught trying to correct someone. i bet you wish there was an undo comment button. dang i wish there was cause i am embarrassed for you. I am sorry orinoco77 The way to prevent it in the future is actually read the story and correct people in notes just incase you skimmed over there story or in your case didnt read it at all. I am sorry once again for your embarrasment. Hey but on the bright side, the phrase you are a terrible pedant is ‘the actual definition’ of irony. That is so rare we see the actual correct use of irony. so hats off to you.

I read the story, I just didn’t read the comments on the challenge. I actually liked the story, just stumbled over “nether the less”. Overboard much?

i am just excited i got to see irony used its so rare we see it used correctly.

“His blood tasted irony in his mouth.” That’s not so hard…

lol you crack me up
science

Well, glad you enjoyed the irony if nothing else.

Please forgive my ignorance orinoco77, but what is your picture? It looks like Alf’s Jewish cousin or something.

@Orinoco It never ceases to amaze me. Someone will try to insult him and he will only benefit from it. It is amazing it always happens to him. If you had attacked his runon sentences his poor grammer, anything. You would have made him look dumb. But you try try to correct something that he had intentionally done, and clariffied perfectly in lines one and seven. All this does is make it stay featured longer and makes you look actually like a terrible PEDANT. Hey didn’t you write a book, i read the title, shouldn’t it Parceval instead of Parsley, i know it’s spelled weird…………..lemme guess i shoulda read more than the title huh?

hey science and alf was jewish, thank you.lol

@DoItForScience it’s a womble http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wombles. Specifically it’s Orinoco.

a womble huh?

hey orinocco you should join the league
even though we have flamed you..you have taken it well you are league material.

thanks APOC that is an awesome comment coming from you.

This is the perfect example of why taking things too far is always the right option!!
I’m with Apoc on this on.

oh,
and the story is really fantastic as well

Clever and interesting. Unexpected. Very clean. Nice work.

Damn! So, this is like one of those stories where everyone dies. I loved it (not the everyone dies part, the story!) Great work!