Writer: Mildred Wirt (1944) Revised By: Priscilla Baker-Carr (1970) An older man Philip March left a bunch of letters with Carson Drew and asked him to look through them for a clue as to where certain original songs that have disappeared might have gone. The letters were written by his…
Dr Greg Moran was killed by an unknown assailant while playing with his son on the playground. Timmy, who was three years old at that time, witnessed the killing and remembered the gunman had blue eyes. Before the gunman fled from the scene, he left a message to Timmy -…
Louis, with his wife and children, is moving into a big white house in Ludlow from Chicago after he was offered a job at the University of Maine. The story's beginning seems to suggest that Louis has a hysterical family that keeps testing his patience. On that tiresome afternoon, Louis…
On September 21, 1986, in Portland, Oregon, Randall Kelly Blighton drove his children to their mother's home in Beaverton after the weekend visitation. He was in his twenties, a truck salesman who had just divorced and heading back toward Portland via the Sunset Highway. Around 8.30 pm on that…
The narrator, Jang Jin-Sung, begins his life story with a mysterious trip to an unknown destination under tight scrutiny by Dear Leader's guards. He was excited to meet the Dear Leader after he got a hint a few days ago about being rewarded for his work. However, he was still…
Sara Linton is a pediatrician and coroner in Grant County, Georgia. Jeffrey Tolliver is her ex-husband and also the police chief for the town. While having lunch with her sister Tessa, she finds Sibyl Adams, a college professor, sitting on the toilet with her head tilted back against the tiled…
It's started with a blackout, and it's actually another blackout, according to the narrator, who later introduces himself as Kushro. The outage is a cruel disruption to the viewers of the famous show, which broadcasts daily during the evening. The Tache Show is a reality show about the daily lives…
Yasuko can simply accept that there is no suitable candidate for marriage, but the real trouble is the rumour. The rumour is about her work in the kitchens of the Second Middle School Service Corps in Hiroshima City. The villagers of Kobatake were saying that she was a victim of…
Every year on the 1st of April, I will remember it's Leslie Cheung's death anniversary. I can't recall the year, and not to be mistaken, I'm not his hardcore fan either, but the strange thing is I do feel a tiny of unsettled every year on that date. And I…
The idea of supermarkets had just begun in Japan during the Japanese post-WWII recovery and industrialisation. In 1969, Ishikari was the managing director, and his elder brother was the president of Ishiei Stores. Kojima is Ishikari's cousin, and both strongly bonded after the two families shared the Ishikari family home…