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  1. Rec 4

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    After his younger sister, Yuko, succumbs to congenital heart failure, Nishiki abandons the yakuza lifestyle and pursues a career as a fine artist. He eventually catches the attention of a bartender moonlighting as an art critic, who forces him to confront a hidden, unchangeable part of himself: did he change at all in the year that he was gone?

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    in which nishiki abandons the yakuza life to become a middling artist to an unimpressed audience of one.

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    03 Nov 2025

  2. Rec 3

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    It sounds like a newborn child, screaming as it takes in the first breath of air into its fragile, fresh lungs. It is so empty, and it scrapes and scratches and claws at the hollow parts of his body. They grow larger. There are pieces missing, more and more disappearing.

    But what he hates more is the feeling that remains after he stops playing. There is nothing in the absence of the crying and the clawing. The hollow grows greater until his body is nothing but the shell of a poorly taxidermied animal reeking of formaldehyde and moth balls.

    The music wraps around him like a warm corpse and it feels right in ways he cannot explain.

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    Something short about the Dark Instruments from Pirates.

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    30 Oct 2025

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  3. Public Bookmark 9

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    29 Oct 2025

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  4. Rec 19

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    My name's Kiryu Kazuma.
    I'm 40 years old.
    I was driving back to Kamurocho for Christmas with -
    Oh god, no.

     

    "Haruka???"
    There’s no answer. The car is empty. And outside its wreckage is nothing but an impenetrable expanse of fog.

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    26 Nov 2024

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  5. Rec 7

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    26 Nov 2024

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