Rice bowls topped with pork, chicken, curry or battered, fried seafood tempura are for sale everywhere. You put your money in a vending machine at the door, hand the chit to a server, and for about $6 you can have a seat at the counter, stuff yourself, then merge back into the passing throngs sufficiently suffonsified.

It is difficult to know whether the boat hieroglyph was merely intended as an ideogram, or as a phonetic determinative for the verb ḫd, ‘to fare downstream’.

I reached down and clasped the sides of his head. “I’m gonna skull-fuck you, faggot.” I began pumping myself into his mouth, ...

reeds swayed by the wind