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Three Linked Stories

Three Linked Stories k URAHASHI YUMI k O re Th e Linked Stories Beneath the Blossoms Late at night, around the time the dog, husband, and children were sleeping peacefully, Keiko touched up her makeup, getting ready to meet someone. She told no one about this, not because she needed to keep it a secret, but because there was no need to tell others. There was another world and she had been see- ing people from that world, and it would be difficult for anyone to understand such an explanation. Keiko looked at her reflection in the mirror. Because she had applied her evening makeup, her face emitted a bewitching phosphorescence that seemed to confirm her transportation to the other world. When she felt the presence of someone outside, she got up and slipped out of the house. She passed through the walls and doors at will. When she went out into the garden, Mr. Satō was standing outside bathed in moonlight. “Sorry to keep you waiting,” she said. Mr. Satō returned her commonplace greeting, and she realized that he was walking without drawing a shadow behind him. Pretty amazing, she thought. She also cast no shadow at that time. Along the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Manoa University of Hawai'I Press

Three Linked Stories

Yumiko, Kurahashi; Hulvey, S. Yumiko
Manoa , Volume 29 (2) – Dec 21, 2017
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k URAHASHI YUMI k O re Th e Linked Stories Beneath the Blossoms Late at night, around the time the dog, husband, and children were sleeping peacefully, Keiko touched up her makeup, getting ready to meet someone. She told no one about this, not because she needed to keep it a secret, but because there was no need to tell others. There was another world and she had been see- ing people from that world, and it would be difficult for anyone to understand such an explanation. Keiko looked at her reflection in the mirror. Because she had applied her evening makeup, her face emitted a bewitching phosphorescence that seemed to confirm her transportation to the other world. When she felt the presence of someone outside, she got up and slipped out of the house. She passed through the walls and doors at will. When she went out into the garden, Mr. Satō was standing outside bathed in moonlight. “Sorry to keep you waiting,” she said. Mr. Satō returned her commonplace greeting, and she realized that he was walking without drawing a shadow behind him. Pretty amazing, she thought. She also cast no shadow at that time. Along the

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Published: Dec 21, 2017

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