A few weeks later, I went back to the farmhouse to oversee some work on the kura and spent the night alone. In the evening, I sat on the engawa next to the paper lantern, reading the final chapters of Endō’s Silence aloud to myself. Later that night, I went to bed in the tatami room you had used, and lay down in the futon you had slept in. 

How I wished you had been there with me.

The first chapter of Tears can be found here.

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