My short story
Black-Naped Oriole in Hokkaido Snow (first published on Quarterly Literary Review Singapore) is now available on Amazon for free. Enjoy.
After a tsunami has taken his daughter and leukemia his wife, Yasahiro Kobayashi goes to the mountains of Hokkaido to commit seppuku, but not before he rescues an old man from several delinquents. "Black-Naped Oriole in Hokkaido Snow" is a story of a man grappling with love and lost, and life and death.