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Thistle sat and watched people eat mochi ice cream from a tree. She was in the James Irvine Garden, and all the lanterns were glowing …
Reggie strolled through Little Tokyo, feeling content and happy in his favorite part of Los Angeles. Angular office buildings cut into the clear blue sky …
“Do you think this Ryan Stone is a real person?” my daughter Sycamore asked me as we took a break from her Zoom class to …
I’ve always thought that I was in touch with my community, and with the people that belong to it. I mean, I went down there …
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22nd Century, Little Tokyo. Looking up at the falling snowflakes, I put my coat collar up and breathed into my hands. Some time ago, Tokio …
It’s a shame to rush through these streets. With its cozy plazas and meandering pathways, its shop windows stocked with colors and flavors, its nooks …
My ten-year-old daughter, Sycamore, had officially become my wing woman. Or should I say wing girl. She was definitely my top—and well, only—assistant in terms …
I only had seven days to get rid of everything in my client’s storage locker. So far, I had disposed of—no, preserved—some historic family photographs …
Now that all the miscellaneous orange packages were out of my client’s storage container, I saw something large wrapped in blue. I removed some red …
Clement of the Japanese American museum called me back an hour later. His hunch was right: the photos and the name plate in the mystery …
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