The thought made him smile and he patted Cec on the shoulder. ‘She′ll be apples,’ he encouraged, and Cec took up his cup.

He fell in a puddle and ended up covered head to toe in mud.

The Box Canyon was adequately named. It was a box, a trap.

Shinjuku Sketch demonstrates another of Ryutanji's trademark techniques, which was established in The Age of Wandering: writing English loan words as kanji Chinese character compounds cribbed with rubi to convey a visual sense of international modernism and global culture.