Searching For- Harakiri In- Here

I paused the film. My own living room looked suddenly small. The dishes in the sink. The unread emails. The half-finished novel.

Beginning. If you found this post by typing “searching for harakiri in…” into a search bar at 2 a.m., please stop for a moment. Searching for- harakiri in-

Harakiri, in its truest sense, is not about dying. It is about refusing to live one more day as a ghost. I paused the film

I stood there for twenty minutes. A convenience store worker took out the trash. A cat watched from a gutter. please stop for a moment. Harakiri