Slowdown Sunday #10: Paper Lanterns by Toshiya Kamei

Published: May 21, 2023, 9:25 p.m.

b"Originally aired December 15, 2021

A new take on a Japanese classic. Kamei's Paper Lanterns is a re-telling of the Peony Lantern, but from the ghost's point of view. If a love story can make you say ewww, this haunted tale will.

Toshiya Kamei is a fiction writer who writes in both English and Spanish. His short fiction has appeared in magazines such as Korad and SmokeLong en Espa\\xf1ol, as well as the anthologies Enchanted Entrapments and Winter of Wonder.

Read the Lafcadio Hearn version of this story here: https://digital.cincinnatilibrary.org/digital/collection/p16998coll8/id/1184/

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