Three Scenarios In Which Hana Sasaki Grows A Tail - Plot & Excerpts
“Toilet’s broke,” she called, testing him. She waited, imagining the serrated tone he used to correct her English when he was upset. BrokEN. He poked his head into the tiny room. “Why am I not surprised? What’s wrong with it?” “The flusher. It’s not flushing.” She wiggled the handle. Water sighed somewhere inside a pipe. It was an old-style squat toilet, a green porcelain basin sunk into the floor. Lou called it “the trough.” He scratched his beard. He’d stopped trimming it, and these days it resembled a storm cloud about to burst. When they’d moved into this place after getting married, he’d taken care to shave every day. He was still teaching kids then, and some found the beard scary. Yumiko didn’t care much for it either, but Lou only said, “When I’m around kids again, I’ll shave.” She stood up and squeezed him arm, for the correction he had not made. “I’ll call Miura-san.” In the kitchen she shuffled through the papers on the bulletin board, mostly take-out menus.
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