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Baishakunin, Inc.

Chapter Two—Eat Your Brussel Sprouts

>> Chapter one“You actually don’t look too bad, considering,” says Ginnie as we are seated at La Grande Orange Café, the new restaurant on ...

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Baishakunin, Inc.

Jamie Kaneko carefully counts out fifteen sheets of toilet paper on her roll, tears on the perforated line, and hands the loose end to me ...

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The Nihongo Papers

Chapter 12

>> Chapter 11Carlos Yamashita’s favorite Japanese superhero was Kikaider. Half blue and half red, Kikaider was a humanoid robot created to save the world from ...

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The Nihongo Papers

Chapter 11

>> Chapter 10Saburo Shishido looked up at the house. Although vacant, it was still standing. A Victorian, the house was designed by one of the preeminent ...

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The Nihongo Papers

Chapter 10

>> Chapter 9Jorge Yamashita was in a state of shock. His sweaty hands almost slipped from the steering wheel. Beside him in the passenger seat was ...

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The Nihongo Papers

Chapter 9

>> Chapter 8“Where is my husband?” Sayuri Shishido repeated, pressing the broken china underneath the woman’s chin. The Asian woman actually must have been ...

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The Nihongo Papers

Chapter 8

>> Chapter 7 Greg Shishido slowly awoke. His head first felt like it was filled with cotton balls, and then bang—searing pain, lightning bolts shooting ...

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The Nihongo Papers

Chapter 7

>> Chapter 6 The door opened, allowing a sliver of sunrise to temporarily blind the boy holding a gun in the corner of the Oxnard hotel ...

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The Nihongo Papers

Chapter 6

>> Chapter 5 For weeks after Haru’s baby brother Kei was born, the Shishido household was both loud and quiet at the same time. Loud ...

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The Nihongo Papers

Chapter 5

>> Chapter 4 Carlos Yamashita knew that the old man was practically blind to begin with, but since the three of them had arrived in California ...