KaBooM62's Story Time

Stretching, Judy glanced at the clock on the wall in her office, it was six o’clock. She would be meeting Daisuke at seven-thirty at the newly re-opened restaurant along the shore. Going home to change wasn’t the same when it wasn’t your own house; she would make do with what she had on. She... Sign in to see full entry.

A Sunday before her business trip had been spent with Lisa, whose apartment was being fixed so that she was living at Takeshi’s house with his parents until it could be moved back into. Judy thought with awe that Lisa was getting first hand experience at being married, without being married, a kind... Sign in to see full entry.

She sat at her desk, her mini spaghetti salad and two onigiri lined in front of her on her desk, her standard lunch. She was just back from a grueling whirlwind two and a half week trip with Shachou, part of the time Sugiyama, and another woman from the office. She was nodding off and she hadn’t... Sign in to see full entry.

The day of the memorial service was bright and sunny leaving the standing puddles in various places the only proof of yesterday’s storm. It was now a month since the first shakings of the earth began, and each neighborhood combined with other neighborhoods to meet at various places for public... Sign in to see full entry.

AFTER The thunder clapped loud enough to startle her from her work, which she had trouble concentrating on anyway. Judy looked outside the widow at the torrents of rain splattering heedlessly on the window pane. Being back at the office wasn’t the cure all she had expected it to be. Although there... Sign in to see full entry.

Tomorrow they would be officially going back to work. Shachou invited her and Sugiyama out with him to celebrate. They weren’t much longer for the campsite although they had been there for just under a month. The Sugiyama’s were due to move back in to their home. In a couple of days, Judy would move... Sign in to see full entry.

Driving back she kept her eyes on his tail lights. The bridge was once again crowded and during the forty five minutes it took to cross it back, Judy let the longing for Sugiyama build, full force, hoping it would burn itself out. She let herself build a fantasy where they had full nights and days... Sign in to see full entry.

Judy glanced into the boxes at the genkan of the Nagata’s. ‘That must have been frightening going in there!’ She proclaimed. ‘It wasn’t that bad. When we went that day, the dresser was free so I just filled boxes with what I could find.’ She nodded enthusiastically. ‘Thank you.’ At least her... Sign in to see full entry.

It was like a construction site. There was a crane parked on the street in front of Judy’s house, and men in hard hats were running all around. One man hustling about in his hard hat tried to shoo them away. Judy noticed he was quite young. ‘It’s dangerous, you better get moving.’ ‘I live here!’... Sign in to see full entry.

Along the ocean there was much more damage. Judy remembered passing here on a normal day and feeling that this was an older part of town. She had climbed up to the shrine on a sunny February day with friends to view the plum blossoms, another life time ago. The strawberry hot houses were still there... Sign in to see full entry.