Roads of Destiny - British Library Tales of the Weird Sadao Hasegawa Yokai are a class of

Yokai are a class of supernatural monsters in Japanese folklore

fathers are absent―we know these moments in the abstract

after imprisonment by Japanese police for thought crimes in Tokyo

One night in 1976

The Bloater by Rosemary Tonks / ISBN 9780811234566 / 135-page paperback from New Directions (I featured this author on Writers No One Reads when she died in 2014)

Roads of Destiny - British Library Tales of the Weird Sadao Hasegawa Yokai are a class ofRoads of Destiny and Other Tales of Alternative Histories and Parallel Realms, edited by Alasdair Richmond From the British Library's "Tales of the Weird" series, published in 2023 ISBN 9780712354394 350 page paperback new copies with light wear from inbound shipping *** A poet comes to a fork in the road where three parallel destinies orbit the same violent fate; a childs rebellious escapade to the city becomes a nightmare when the portal to return