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Twenty-Four Frames a Second

The Last Place I Wanted to Be

Chapter 1 · free to read

Higashiura. Population: shrinking. The last place I wanted to be.

It smelled like celluloid and dust. Exactly the same as when I was seven.

Eight years drawing other people's dreams frame by frame. Then one morning I just... couldn't draw another line.

One second of someone moving. I used to know exactly how much that was worth.

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