"There's something wrong with this baby." When Ms. Hara (a pseudonym), an acquaintance of my mother's, got pregnant with her first child, that was the thought that struck her. She didn't know what was wrong with it herself, but the feeling was so strong she even considered getting an abort…
This is a story about a guy named Tomoya from my college days. He’d party every single night, barely showed up to class, handed in blank exams, and didn't give a damn about failing. He was pretty wild…
This happened back when I was in elementary school. At the time, I lived in a municipal housing project out in the Tokyo suburbs. The rent was cheap, but the buildings were super run-down, and it wasn…
Whether I was born with a sixth sense or what, I've seen ghosts all over town ever since I was a little kid, and I've spent my entire life pretending I couldn't. Naturally, I knew that if I went aroun…
During the summer of my senior year in college, having wrapped up job hunting, I started working part-time at a local gas station. My reason for applying was simple: it was close to home and the pay w…