Kalau Almony

You’re cute—that’s all you are.

There’s something cute about that stupidity. It reminds me of you.

I had to kill you before I died.

There’s no way someone like you could be a murderer. There’s no way.

support of the Japan Foundation.

a broken bicycle that looked as though even if someone tried to ride it, it could do nothing but turn right for eternity

The algae were evidence of the tide, proof that this was not fresh water.

Jinko-san was Toma’s birth mother, and a woman called Kotoko-san lived with him and his father, Madoka.

Apparently she asked, perfectly calm, You want me to shove that tongue down to your stomach?

When she left, Toma’s younger brother or sister was already growing inside her, but it was never born. I was past forty so I figured it’d be my last child, but one child from that man was plenty, I went and had ‘em go scrape it out of me at the hospital, she said.