Akutagawa 2026 (first half) · Candidate
悪い血
Warui chi
Title translated by AI:“Bad Blood”
Suzumi Suzuki · 43 when first published
Novel · 127 pages
AI-generated summary:A woman who has always lived as she pleased receives sudden news about her body, and as she walks to the clinic in jewelled sandals to reclaim a blood sample, her past wrongs come back to her one by one.