Leave It As Is
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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The position of the light wasn’t very good. For some reason, it was hanging near the window on the far side of the room from the entrance.
It didn’t appear to have always been there.
The wiring extended from the centre of the ceiling. I don’t know what they were thinking, but it appeared to have been deliberately extended from there to the far side by the window.
And because of that, my body blocked the light strangely and created shadows near my hand. Either way, it was in a terrible spot.
I thought I’d be able to put up with it for a few days, but it just kept bothering me. I intended to live here for a long time, so there was no point trying to put up with it.
I decided that the next day, I’d rewire and move it back.
That night.
I struggled to fall asleep, and as I looked up at the ceiling, it had transformed into a giant face.
No, more correctly, part of a human face.
The top of the face was by the entrance, and the bottom by the windows. The large parts of the face, from the forehead to the nose, filled up most of my vision. It was so big that the entire face couldn’t fit on the ceiling.
The eyeballs moved around and looked right at me. It clearly recognised everything.
I was so shocked that I couldn’t speak.
But it also seemed that the position of that light wasn’t very good for the face either.
It was hanging right beneath the nostrils, so it seemed to be making it itchy. But it was just a face, so it wasn’t able to do anything about the itch.
After screwing up its face and frowning constantly, it seemed to give up and then disappeared.
In the end, I decided to leave the light where it was.