These stories were born, but later I took their lives away and let them vanish on the wind. When something belongs to one person's heart, they are bound to hesitate too much. But so many people kept asking, and at last I couldn't resist their repeated questions and encouragement. So I found the collection of stories I'd deleted with a click of the mouse and published them here again. A few of them have been published before, and they are the only works of mine ever published in a magazine.
This novel and its characters are purely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Please do not imitate.
