Nov 4, 2025

Fiction in three parts: the uncanny meeting of an immigrant, a cashier, and an old woman

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Jeffrey Streeter

Nov 11

Ah, those Meiji chocolate macadamia nuts. Hard to stop once you start...

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Kathleen Clare Waller

Nov 11

Are you supposed to stop?! :)

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Another great instalment. I love how you capture Aoto’s reflective isolation against the sterile hum of the konbini. You always do this so well in your writing.

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Kathleen Clare Waller

Nov 8

Thanks a lot, Jon!

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