Unit 203. The previous tenant... stopped sending postcards six months ago. We assume he ascended.
It should be.
Don’t mind the laundry. I’m between jobs. And pants.
To a higher plane. Or the landfill. Rent is 22,000 yen. Dokushin Apartment Dokudami-sou Episode 1
She winks. Soichiro laughs nervously. Then she walks through the wall.
(Long pause) I... I stopped calling my mother three years before she died. Because she didn’t approve of my marriage. And now my wife is gone, my job is gone, and I live in a building with a ghost and a man who irons in his underwear.
You the new grub?
A woman in a tiger-print tracksuit opens the door. This is (55). She is holding a frozen mackerel like a weapon.
“Alimony is non-negotiable. Also, your mother’s urn is in the genkan. Pick it up by Friday.”
Toshiko places a cold, invisible hand on his shoulder. Unit 203
A single (Houttuynia cordata / “fish mint” / chives plant) is growing out of the crack in his balcony concrete. It smells like medicine and rot and life.
He pours a drink. Then another.
Dramedy / Slice of Life with dark humor