A standalone excerpt from a novel-in-progress, "The Blue Glow" is set in Hiroshima in 1945, in the aftermath of the atomic bomb. Sen, a sixteen-year-old suicide pilot who lived, returns to his home city, where gods now crouch disheveled among the survivors.
Content warnings: Descriptions of war, grief, and the dead
Copyright khōréō magazine 2023. Story by Lisa Hosokawa, edited by Kanika Agrawal. Audio edition read by Cary Kawamoto, with casting and production by Jenelle DeCosta.
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Music: This Too Shall Pass by Scott Buckley
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