14/09/2026 – Impresie. Albastru inefabil…

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honey in the wound – jiyoung han

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Throughout it all, she bit her tongue, learning not to share what she had come to know of the people around her. Their hopes, their fantasies, their fears. From a young age, Rinako internalized the lesson that disclosure led to ruin. Secrecy preserved comfort and safety.
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Rinako had vivid dreams. Some were ungraspable and forgotten, but some played so clearly behind her closed eyes she could not always recall if she had been asleep. Her dreams rarely centered her, however. Some were a pastiche of absurd situations featuring people she did not know. If her dreams presented more familiar faces, she would see her neighbors’ pleasures, her teachers’ hobbies, her classmates’ nightmares.
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While these dreams stoked her sense of kinship toward others, no one returned the sentiment. She did not understand why connecting with people was so difficult for her when it came so easily to everyone else, in dreams or otherwise.

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“I WANT TO GO WITH YOU!” Rinako screamed louder than she had ever screamed before, startling a host of sparrows to flee from a nearby maple tree.
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A sparrow was perched on his nightstand next to his pager and a pile of coins, staring at him.

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faptul ca vrabiutele lui Tayiji – personaj secundar in poveste, vegheaza inca – indirect – asupra lui song young-ya peste ani, ea in korea, iar fiul si nepoata ei in tokyo, ma induioseaza peste masura…