This is a story I heard from an acquaintance of mine—let's call him A—who used to be a bit of a wild guy. About twenty years ago, A went on a trip abroad with five friends who were just as wild as he was. They were all guys in their early twenties, and the trip was packed with enough excitement to s…
"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 kno…
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…
