Futaro Katsumi

Tsutomu spends the day driving as if fleeing from something. Exhausted and sick, he stops at a service area where a strange woman offers him water. She asks for a ride, and though he feels a lingering unease, Tsutomu reluctantly agrees...

The summer I was ten years old, I met an alien—or so I thought. Yuuri, who had lost his mother and was being abused by his father, had nowhere to escape. The person he met was a suspicious man who claimed to be an alien... This is a story of encounter and rebirth, told by a rising author.

Fuutalow Katsumi short story collection: 家という名の (chapters 1-18) 飛ぶ男 (19-21) 気まぐれな水 (22-23) 夜想 (24) ひだりならえ (25-27) 人魚伝の淵 (28-31) テキサスヒット (32-34)

\[2020 Second Half - 83rd Tetsuya Chiba Award Young Division] Encouragement Award

\[2020 First Half - 82nd Chiba Tetsuya Award Young Division] Encouragement Award

\[81st Tetsuya Chiba Award, Young Division, Encouragement Award]