He has already questioned the village headman, Yoshimasa, but the old man has clearly kept some secret back. The rain spirit, of course, stood bareheaded in the rainfall and seemed to take little notice of it, except to occasionally lift her hand and delicately lick a few raindrops from her pale fingers. There was no sound except for the rain on the roof of the shrine and the clinking and splashing as the water flowed down the rain chains located at the eaves on the four corners of the building. ‘Blue Mountain,’ the peak that gave the village its name, towered above all some distance away on the left. The rain spirit had stationed herself at a spot where there was a gap in the evergreens and one could see the village below and the rice paddies beyond it. The shrine was nestled onto the crown of a wooded hill overlooking the village of Aoiyama. From the local shrine, Yamada sees the rain spirit, watching and waiting for someone who never comes. Yamada and his sidekick Kenji have been summoned to a village where unceasing rain threatens the rice harvest. #157 “The Sorrow of Rain” by Richard ParksĪ Lord Yamada story. Issue #158 has tragedy, and #159 is horror, appropriate for the date. Twice as many stories as a usual month for this zine, with the editor presenting some favorite authors for the anniversary double issue, which introduces us to ghosts and spirits. Beneath Ceaseless Skies #157-159, October 2014
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