小ぬか雨

A young woman steps off the train into her provincial hometown, where the persistent, fine autumn rain seems to have preserved everything in a state of gentle suspension. Her return is less a nostalgic trip and more an excavation, a need to sift through the unresolved threads of a past she fled but which never truly released her. Conversations with former classmates, a visit to an aging teacher, walks along familiar, rain-slicked lanes — each moment adds a piece to the mosaic of memory. As the soft drumming on the roof continues, she realizes the journey is not about finding answers, but about learning to forgive the ghosts she left behind, and herself.