In English
Akutagawa 2003 (second half) · Winner
Snakes and Earrings
蛇にピアス · Hebi ni piasu
Hitomi Kanehara · 20 when first published
Novella · 120 pages · Love, Coming of age
AI-generated summary:Nineteen-year-old Lui moves in with Ama, whose tongue is forked like a snake's, starts sleeping with Shiba, a sadistic tattoo artist, and throws herself into body modification, from a tongue piercing to a tattoo.