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Article #1715 min read

You Have to Remember Me

When Kanzaki Sawa looked at me from within the crowd, I heard my own heartbeat miss once, clear as a dropped bead. The square was full of an endless tide of people.

Article #1619 min read

You Were the Stranger I Waited for in Vain

I was standing at the roadside waiting for the light to change when, just as the red was about to die, a car cut across my vision.

Article #1515 min read

You Said You'd Take Me to Ishigaki

At last, at four in the morning, the train entered Okinawa. All the mixed and restless feelings in the carriage seemed to settle with that hour.

Article #1417 min read

The Princess Sleeps On

The ward grew dimmer by the minute in the wounded dusk. The last light of sunset was being rubbed out at the edge of the sky.

Article #1317 min read

The Music Box Remembers Spring

I forgot everything that ever happened. Or perhaps I only pretended to. I heard the doctor say, "She's lost her memory.

Article #1216 min read

The Bluebird of Happiness Never Lost Its Way

Ono Momoko never forgot the first time she saw Asano Shu.

Article #1116 min read

Ten Years

In the summer of 2006, three months after Riko returned to the city, she stood out wherever she went with her short wine-red hair. Passersby kept glancing at her.

Article #1013 min read

Stars in the Deep Sea

Step by step, I moved forward through the dark blue depths, slow and laborious.