Mika Tanner is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and has had fiction published in Glimmer Train and StoryQuarterly. She currently lives in Los Angeles and is working on a novel.
“I am not smart, I am not pretty.” This is what Kiyoshi Toyoda’s sister had written before leaping from the top of their twelve-story apartment building some time before dawn, leaving her body to be discovered by an old man on his early...