Suddenly…A Whale

So, yesterday I’m walking around, and suddenly I encounter a Sidewalk Whale. My carefully considered theory about this little-known hazard of Ningyo-cho is that it tends to happen on Fridays, when they surface to stock up on cetacean-sized libations at the partytime vending machine.

Jonelle Patrick is the author of the Only In Tokyo mystery series, published by Penguin/Intermix.