Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Before the Ever After, After 3
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...
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Before the Ever After, After 2
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...
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Before the Ever After, After 1
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...
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Monday, April 21, 2008
Before the Ever After: During 35
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...
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Before the Ever After: During 34
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...
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Thursday, April 17, 2008
Before the Ever After: During 33
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...
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Before the Ever After: During 32
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!’...
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Before the Ever After: During 31
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...
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Before the Ever After: During 30
The three days of rain were over and it was a bright beautiful morning. Spring was in the air and the big down jacket could be left behind, Judy thought, but took it anyway throwing it into the back of Shachou’s BMW. It was what he insisted they take when Sugiyama’s Suzuki Wagon R wouldn’t start....
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Monday, April 14, 2008
Before the Ever After: During 29
Nobody had the nerve to move back into any house. Even the Mochizuki’s house which was built to withstand all of this wasn’t slept in at night yet. After a certain point in the architectural history of this town, of most towns in Japan, all building was done with earthquakes in mind. Other than old...
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