⛩️Stories from the Japanese countryside⛩️

Five interconnected stories of purpose, meaning, justice, talking animals, the boss falling off a cliff, mushrooms, and travel hampers.

😈 **The Creature: The Dinny Mara

The Dinny Mara is a friendly merman who wants to rehabilitate the reputation of water creatures. They could probably start by not drowning so many people?

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"Never a Worried One" by Blue Dot Sessions | "Denton" by Blue Dot Sessions | "Toadstool Runner" by Blue Dot Sessions | "Spiro's Etude" by Blue Dot Sessions | "Writer's Retreat" by Blue Dot Sessions | "Paper Crane Sonata" by Blue Dot Sessions | "Convex Marsa" by Blue Dot Sessions

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(Spoilers ahead)
Some brief allusions to sexual situations between a wife and her adulterous lover (e.g. clothes on the floor and the man waking up naked elsewhere). Some violence in fireflies crawling in a man's mouth, nose, ears, and eyes, and then leaving him to suffer for three weeks while he slowly dies.