A boy encounters a kappa that has lost its water. He saves it, but the encounter haunts him throughout his life until they one day meet again.

Linda Gould is an American who lived for 26 years in Japan. Her fiction and non-fiction have been published in media outlets around the world and is host of “Kaidankai,” a podcast of supernatural stories.

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The Kaidankai Podcast features original short fiction exploring horror, fantasy, science fiction, and the strange.

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