Water Moon

Water Moon

Author: Samantha Sotto Yambao Listening Length: 9h 40m
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A woman inherits a pawnshop where you can sell your regrets, and then embarks on a magical quest when a charming young physicist wanders into the shop, in this dreamlike fantasy novel. On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will see a cozy ramen restaurant. And only the chosen ones...

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Chapter Sixty One Year Later

Chapter Sixty

One Year Later

All love stories began with one word and ended with another. “Hello, goodbye.” “Stay, leave.” “Yes, no.” When Keishin had met Jackie during his sophomore year in college, they started their relationship with an unremarkable “please” and ended it four months later with a polite “thank you.”

A year after Hana had vanished from Super-Kamiokande’s water tank, Keishin still struggled to figure out what their words were. He was inclined to settle on “sorry” as their first. It was his safest bet. They had wronged each other and sought forgiveness so many times that, statistically, one of their apologies had a high probability of standing at the border between where their friendship had ended and something harder to describe began. Determining their last word was more difficult. His last memory of Hana was made up of screams.