Grace Ryan, fresh out of art school, arrives in Japan to take a year-long post as an English teacher. She's dismayed to be one of just two foreigners in a town of 8,000 people, nothing like the capital city she's just left behind, but determined to make the best of it.

Who would have thought that living the small-town life would be even more intimidating than Tokyo?


This short companion story bridges the five years that pass between the events of Meet You By Hachiko and Edokko.

"E-S-I-D"

by Loren Greene