Young people living in a factory town are portrayed through their frustration and makeshift self-sufficiency. Winner of the 41st Subaru Literary Award, looking for a “point of light” beyond pressure.

They grope for a faint light in a closed town.

An honorable-mention story published in Subaru magazine in November 2017. Ghost siblings spend their time reading, eating, and sleeping in a story with a faded sense of time.

The soft everyday life of ghosts without time.