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Akutagawa 2003 (first half) · Winner
ハリガネムシ
Hariganemushi
Title translated by AI:“Horsehair Worm”
Man'ichi Yoshimura · 42 when first published
Novella · 137 pages
AI-generated summary:A high-school teacher becomes involved with Sachiko, a small, thin woman scraping by at the bottom of society with countless scars on her wrists, and the parasite-like urge to do something cruel begins to stir inside him.