Author’s Note: This old work of mine has recently been published by Abiko Free Press (AFP) as an Amazon Kindle eBook. If you like the photos and poems you are about to see and read, well now you can own a copy. Just click on the AFP link above to get started. And thanks for [...]
The essence of Daruma does not require that you see him in color. The power of Daruma does not object if you conform his appearance to suit your own warped reality. But the hopefulness of Daruma would really love it if you grabbed the pink one to go next to your Hello Kitty™ clock, and [...]
The advance probes had made it very easy to find the ruins on Feltran. The journey had been long, but uneventful. And now that we were there, establishing orbit and the optimal descent were proceeding normally. However, as the pilot lowered our ship ever carefully to the preset landing coordinates on the edge of the [...]
Last night, I had a dream. I was stuck in western Tokyo with no passport or plane ticket, and only a few thousand yen in my pocket. But, fortunately, all the signs on the train platform where I was standing looked like this:
She loved the things placed about Tokyo, like the figures outside the shops that beckon you almost irresistibly inside, even if the place doesn’t sell anything of particular interest to you. She reveled in the presence of these playful things. When she stood by these figures, like the Milky girl in Nakano Broadway, they became [...]
