Consumed
Yuki has been consumed by her wine bar’s future home since she first saw the place that first spring day. But that’s just a figure of speech, isn’t it?
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This year’s Ice Festival promises to be the most spectacular display of sculptures ever, except, of course, for Yamamoto’s boring old lifeboat. What possible reason could he have to ruin the only exciting thing that ever happens in this town by making the same dumb carving year after year anyway?
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Sasaki’s essay captured the harrowing tale his grandfather has always told of the bombing of Hiroshima, winning him the chance to take part in the momentous 75th year anniversary event. But the most horrifying detail of the story is the one he seems to have gotten wrong.
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