A brutal scene at the start of the 1980 TV series “Shōgun”, which was based on James Clavell’s novel of the same name, left a story brewing in me for something like 30 years. Full disclosure – I never managed to finish the book, it was just too slow for me!
In that scene, a Samurai beheads a man for not bowing. It was the callousness of that action that caught my attention… and finally my reaction has popped out in this short story, which I’m sharing just for fun… “share and enjoy!”
You can find the story here: https://leejrussell.com/short-stories2/
