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Electric Eel Shock - Japan

12 May 2019 3 minute read 8 comments Sugarfix $0.11

  It was 3.30pm Saturday and I was in bed, wrapped round my girlfriend in a state of post-coital bliss. The phone rang. I hoped it would go away. It rang more. Aren't you going to get that? Meeeehhhhhh! Part growl, part resignation and clumsily grabb...

The Joy of Shaving

2 Apr 2019 6 minute read 9 comments Sugarfix $0.14

  I was sitting in a doctors surgery feeling decidedly miserable. Two days before my face had been pounded with a baseball bat and a steel pipe. My nose was flattened and my left eye socket was cracked in several places. I looked like a Panda. The do...

The Ronin of Chikusa Junior High School

26 Feb 2019 1 minute read 0 comments Steve B Howard $0.00

Black mood circus strangely absent. No Cherub faced glue sniffer wears his dark Prussian school uniform or dances down blood flecked hallways. Did a rival’s blade find your throat? Artificially compliant, you drift in with the late morning sunshine. ...

Cheese Bar Shirokuma

20 Mar 2026 1 minute read 0 comments cryotosensei $0.04

“Welcome to my part of the world,” I chuckled gregariously, motioning for my newfound friend to partake in the delectable plate of cheeses. I had earlier agreed to host this fellow Singaporean through a website called Couchsurfing. Now that we had fi...

The Dead Along the River Speak to Me

3 Mar 2019 1 minute read 2 comments Steve B Howard $0.00

There are no bodiesin the ground. Japanese cemeteriescontain only headstones. On the gentle sweepof the river bank Kami wander. Small pink flowers fightthrough frozen dirt.A sudden explosion of colorin the black mud. This afternoon snowwill cover all...