Within a Name

Ranat Totz has spent most of his life robbing the tombs of the dead for enough tin to buy his next drink.But after he decides to loot the body of a wealthy priest he finds in an alley, he's arrested and convicted of murdering the man.Realizing he's got nothing to show for his life, Ranat begins a desperate gamble to solve the crime he didn't commit, so he can clear the only thing of value he has - his name. And maybe have another drink on the way. Robert Fisher has lived in Hiroshima, Japan with his wife and five-year-old son since 2015, where he occasionally teaches English, writes, and pretends to learn Japanese. Before that he lived in Vancouver, Canada where he worked in the beer industry and mostly just cavorted about, getting into trouble and eating Thai food.He placed fourth in The Vancouver Courier's literary contest with his short story The Gift, which appeared in that paper on February 20, 2009. His science fiction novella The God Machine was published by Blue Cubicle Press in 2011 under the name Robert Fisher.He has been trying to write stories since he was four years old.