Dokuro no Harawata

A town like any other... but this town is not normal... It's because it is controlled by something invisible... Machiko has been moving house ever since she little. This move was also supposed to be "normal" for Machiko, until she moved to that town... Elementary school students accuse Machiko of murder, a town that writhes like a living thing, a hospital where if "one is born, another one dies", and corpses sink to the bottom of a pond in a park. What is the truth told by a mysterious young man who warns her that "the town is alive"...

Included in this volume are five stories:
1: My Home Town (マイ・ホーム・タウン, My Home Town)
2: Ugomeku Machi (蠢く街, The Wriggling Town)
3: Tozasareta Machi (閉ざされた街, The Closed-off Town)
4: Kakusei Suru Machi (覚醒する街, The Awakened Town)
5: Yami ni Kieru Machi (闇に消える街, The Town Eclipsing in the Dark)