Their relationship is oh so very sensual, as gentle as cherry blossom petals blowing in the wind, yet ultimately life changing for both men. With its soft unassuming style, it tells the story of Daisuke, a ronin (master-less samurai) bent on revenging his wife's death, and Genji, a kabuki actor whose backstage duties include giving his body to samurai patrons, and gives them a beautifully written HEA without feeling rushed or too short. This book was previously published and re-released with Ai Press.Īt only 81 pages, Flying Fish is a fascinating vignette into the world of 18th century Japan. Publisher’s Note: This book contains explicit sexual content, graphic language, and situations that some readers may find objectionable: Anal play/intercourse, male/male sexual practices. If he loves another, how will he go on and who will he become? Keeping this miraculous lover will require giving up the one thing that has kept him alive for years: his hatred for the lord who murdered his wife. He has always loved women but he can’t deny the call of his heart or his baser interests.Īfter an afternoon of sexual bliss, his heart and soul are tormented and torn. Yet his passion takes him when he spies on a graceful young man bathing naked in a hot spring. So when a handsome ronin, or masterless samurai, comes upon him stealing some solitude for a bath in a hot spring and their encounter turns passionate and profoundly erotic, Genji’s surprised and delighted.ĭaisuke Minamoto’s past fills his life with a bitterness that grips his soul and makes him dangerous.

Though he loves theater, he doesn’t love every part of his profession, especially some of the patrons. Genji Sakura is one such flying fish, yet he dreams of the day he’ll find the man he can give his heart to and leave the loneliness of his itinerant life behind. In eighteenth century Japan, during the golden age of samurai and of the Kabuki theater, young actors known as “flying fish” traveled the countryside, performing for audiences by day and giving their bodies to their samurai patrons at night.

Flying Fish by Sedonia Guillone