Chastol

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I have 38 stories published in 6 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 41048 times and 4 of my stories have been cherry picked.

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Charles R. Pringle

I was born in the northeast of England, but I have lived most of my life outside the UK. I basically grew up in Germany, and have lived in East Asia for the past 31 years—29 years in Japan and two years in China—where I have worked as a freelance copywriter and editor for a number of major Japanese companies. I’ve written hundreds of articles on Japan as well as two travel guides (one for Thomas Cook and one for Compass Maps) and a Japanese phrase guide (for Thomas Cook). I am also credited as the author of a book called Neo Shunga (Shunga is the term for Japanese erotic art of the Edo Period), but, in fact, I only wrote the introduction and the captions. The book consists mainly of woodblock prints. I recently published my first novel in English, Blinded by the Night (I have published one in Japanese), as an ebook. It is the first in a series featuring Akira Toyoda. I expect to finish the second novel in this series, provisionally titled Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, by the end of the year.

http://www.amazon.com/Charles-Pringle/e/B00478TJLM

http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/244554

My stories

One Dance Too Many

A chance meeting in a pub in West Berlin at two o'clock in the morning generates a friendship between an old man and a group of diverse musicians.

I’m Not an English Gentleman

A young English musician living in West Berlin is down on his luck, so he turns to English teaching. His first pupil turns out to be a source of entertainment, education and constant surprises.

Questions on the Coach

A curious little boy causes uproar on a coach from London to Newcastle by asking questions about a disease he read about in the public toilet at Victoria.

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