Winner of the Best of Issue in Neonbeam magazine #4, this short tale of a Japanese woman caught up in a web of involuntary assassins is now available for free.Asami's job is simple: meet a contact at an agreed time and place then hand over a murder weapon. After that, she is free to leave. That's what everyone else does.But Asami never leaves. She stays and watches the murder with her own eyes.This behaviour confuses the contacts, her boss, and the messenger who delivers her assignments.Why does she stay?What does she hope to gain?She asks herself the same questions until one assignment gets personal and she feels compelled to do more than just watch.

Seven visitors cross paths in the rooms and corridors of La Chapel Blanche, a love hotel in Tokyo. Each may have entered for vastly different reasons, but eventually each is confronted with the same question: when and how to leave.Bathtime at La Chapel Blanche tells the interlinked tales of seven individuals trapped in one way or another inside a Japanese love hotel. From the receptionist waiting for the mysterious customer who appears every full moon and stays alone in the same room to the professional baseball player with a split personality searching for escape after being fleeced by his hot date, each character links unwittingly to the next in a panorama of comedy, drama and action.