“The Kitchen God,” by Hiromi Kawakami

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“The Kitchen God,” by Hiromi Kawakami
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“Was I happy? I had never given that question a thought.” Read a short story by Hiromi Kawakami.

“I wonder if it really exists,” I muttered, refilling my bucket with water.She kept watching me as I went through the process of cleaning the area.

When I got back to my apartment, I asked the kitchen god if he’d seen a weasel, but he didn’t make a sound. I clasped my hands and prayed to him—prayed and prayed, wiping all else from my mind.Mr. Sanobe phoned, hoping to get together. We met at our usual place, the Olive Tree, but when I started for the hotel he tugged at my sleeve.“You know, play games and stuff,” he answered, sweat beginning to ooze from his forehead.

I held my breath. I hate it when I’m lying down and someone slips an arm under my shoulder like that. When I walked back into the living room, the thick, musty smell of the potted plants rose to greet me. They blanketed the floor so tightly it was hard to move around. I edged my way to the table and placed the cups and dishes theand I had used on a tray. I figured it was a good time to pedal over to the convenience store and shoplift something. I grabbed my tote bag and thumped down the stairs.I began to get calls from Mr. Sanobe during the day. He phoned every hour, sometimes every ten minutes.

We wasted no time dividing up our purchases. The wall of our building was turning gray, I thought, as I leaned over the rim of the plastic box. I could feel my mind beginning to wander. Alarmed, I tried to focus on a package of Co-op flour. Then I shifted to a box of the Co-op chestnut-and-bean-paste sweets. If I could just keep focussing on external objects like those, I thought, then bad things couldn’t sneak into my mind.“C’mon,” he said on the phone one day. “Tell me where you live.

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