How High We Go in the Dark

by Sequoia Nagamatsu

Akira resides at Takahashi’s Many Worlds, a virtual cafe complete with personal pods featuring a serviceable futon, shower facilities, and a small kitchenette. Reservations are typically not allowed. The owner is Ms. Eiko Takahashi. She sympathizes with Akira and the other young people who have been effectively exiled following the deaths of their families and despite government assistance. Before selling most of his belongings, Akira

Me, I lost my mother a long time ago, quite suddenly. She gave me this pendant to remind me of her. I guess I’m still searching. She’s here with me, though—and this job, helping people like you, sitting quietly in the lobby all day and watching

Clara’s necklace ????

“Ancient history,”

you

Ahhh second person

I’d missed the smell of him—a strange mixture of cigarette smoke and tropical deodorant.

Smell is importsnt

I remembered her telling us magical stories about how she had a recurring dream of being a baby and someone raising her tiny body into a dark sky and letting her float away into space.

NO WAY

Clara Miyashiro,

I promise we’ll eat dinner in a minute.

Psychopomp Magazine.

Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone.

“Through the Garden of Memory,” originally titled “How High We Go in the Dark,”

I was right

I’ll also nod at an episode of The Twilight Zone where a group of people, whom we later discover to be toys (a ballerina, a soldier, etc.), find themselves trapped in a box and attempt to escape.

I was thinkingv if tbat episode too

Never Let Me Go

Joon-ho’s Okja.

Girl Zero

“Rokurokubi,”

Where We Go When All We Were Is Gone