A short story by Sakumi Tayama. It won the 103rd Bungakukai Newcomer Award in 2006 and was later collected in Spiritual Descent.

The award-winning short story collected in Sakumi Tayama's Spiritual Descent.

This collection of three stories includes the prize-winning title story, a tragedy involving a man who turns into a bird, alongside tales of a mother swallowed by a dinosaur and an uncanny orchid. Uneasy fantasy enters everyday life, where cruelty and humour intersect.

A story collection in which bird-men, dinosaurs, and orchids lead the familiar texture of daily life toward unexpected terror.