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Content warning: This story may contain sensitive material or discuss topics that some readers may find distressing. Reader discretion is advised. ------------------------------------------------------- Koshigaya City, Japan, Spring 2000 What if the place you escape to is already watching you? Once a bustling, four-season, port city en route to Tokyo during the Edo period, the freestanding, wooden buildings here with their rounded, clay, kawara roofs remained, having patientl

She went to the lake when the sky was bruised with dusk, her heart heavier than her shadow. “I am terrified of marriage,” she confessed, and the water rippled as if listening. “Didn’t you like being married?” asked the lake, its surface trembling with curiosity. S.E. Linn's "The Woman and the Lake" She thought carefully, her reflection bending with her thoughts. “Yes,” she said at last. “I loved being married. My wedding day was beautiful. When I admired my husband, believed