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Article #2516 min read

The Seventh Thing I Hate About You

I used to think the standards for happiness were the same for everyone. I never imagined that by the time I met happiness again, I would already have forgotten your face.

Article #248 min read

After Crossing Mountains and Rivers

At the bottom of that deep, dark sea, I hold my breath. If memory shines like a sky full of stars, then the brightest one is always you.

Article #238 min read

That Autumn Was Strangely Wrong

That autumn was strangely wrong. It was already the end of September, yet the sun still blazed as fiercely as midsummer, especially at noon, when the city streets were flooded with...

Article #2214 min read

Let's Run Away Together

I don't remember when the habit began. I only know that now, in the middle of the night, I often wake with a start and sit alone on the empty balcony, turning the pages of a...

Article #2114 min read

The Blue Jade Table

At dusk the sky over the little village was dyed red by the sinking sun, layer upon layer of gold spreading out before darkness dropped all at once like a lid.

Article #2014 min read

A Delicate Heart: Red Beans Grow in the South

For some reason, she had arrived again in that desolate place far beyond the city, a stretch of waste ground so lonely it made the skin crawl.

Article #1912 min read

A Broken Dream at the Green Window

The night in Kyoto was pure and cold, the moonlight white as frost. At the foot of the capital, the long bluestone street shone like a stream of jewels.

Article #1815 min read

Fleeing Through Time's Flood

I never became the person I once imagined I would be. But without Hashimoto Sumi, I don't know whether I could ever have fought my way through the flood of time, turned wounds into...