Fine Travels
Author: Ukari (translated with author’s permission, please visit their website to see the original Japanese works!)
To say here is far, and to call yonder nearby. Stories on the edge of the every day, strange tales you may or may not be moved by. Strange, curious, fantastic stories told by me, you, him and her. There are many stories but they’re all concluded within a single page, each story around 200 to 1200 characters in length, a short story collection you can easily read. Please enjoy them. Updated every Saturday at 6pm.
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An old man was trudging along slightly ahead of me.
We seemed to be going the same way, and he had been in front of me for a short while. It looked like I was purposefully following him, so no doubt he didn’t like it either. I decided to pick up the pace and walk past him.
But I was unable to catch up.
He seemed to be trudging along slowly, but no matter how fast I walked, I couldn’t close the distance between us.
It was so strange that I stopped in my tracks.
Then I realised that I didn’t recognise where I was. I had somehow wandered into an area where I didn’t recognise the land nor the houses.
As I looked around in astonishment, the old man disappeared.
I asked a passer-by for directions, and somehow I was able to make it back home.
But while I only followed that man for maybe 20 or 30 seconds, it took me nearly two hours to get back home.