This is a story about something I experienced back when I was hospitalized. When a certain illness made hospitalization unavoidable, I resigned myself to my fate and checked into a large general hospital nearby. Being hospitalized for the first time was nerve-wracking enough on its own, but on top o…
A few years ago, I fell ill and had to be hospitalized. It was just a run-of-the-mill municipal hospital, and I was admitted to the internal medicine ward. My stay lasted about a month. The ward was f…
Back in college, when a friend moved into a new place, a few of us decided to crash his apartment to tease him a bit. His place was pretty typical for a college student—not brand-new, but not falling …
This is a story from back in my college days, when a few friends and I went down to the beach. Just so you know, all the names used below are pseudonyms. That day, three of us guys—my friends Tanaka, …
This happened over twenty years ago, back when I was still in middle school. It was just a few days before summer break was about to end, and my mother drove my younger brother and me to the local com…
