The Moai Island Puzzle

by Alice Arisugawa

Don’t get exasperated.

than I

No way I’d ever think of her as not cute.

He held out a large-boned hand

Reiko Arima, Junji Makihara, Sumako Makihara, Kango Makihara, Toshiyuki Inukai and Satomi Inukai.

Do you know the story of Samson and Delilah?

I bet Kazuto has

been blasting away all summer,

I changed my grip on the rifle and pointed it at Maria’s chest.

Ruth Rendell’s

I was the scrawniest of the bunch.

You fool!

cum-lunch,

Maria walked with her usual wiggle

It was the most beautiful and at the same time the most heartrendingly sorrowful sunset I had ever witnessed.

And the night was over too soon.

Our Boy Detective Club has no little boys,

Shouldn’t forget about the deadly venom!

‘You think I’m doing some kind of monkey performance

allow me to deliver Maria’s Dying Message Lecture.

So many writers have opened the locked room again and again, like there’s a revolving door.

You know the feeling, right? It happened to me once before.

Please bring order to this cosmos by your own hands.