Driving The Dead

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Driving The Dead

Mr Ito drove a taxi in a coastal city in Miyagi Prefecture.

One night, exactly a year after a tsunami killed over 3,000 people there, a young woman climbed into the back seat of Mr Ito’s cab. She was pale and her clothes were in ruins. She put her hand on Mr Ito’s shoulder and he felt his whole body go cold. “Have I died?” she asked him and then vanished.

After that night passengers would often climb into Mr Ito’s cab and ask to be taken up into the mountains, only to disappear before reaching their destination.

He knew they were yurei, restless spirits, as soon as they sat in his cab. These were the ones who had tried to escape to the mountains but the 10-metre tsunami waves washed them away while crossing the western bridge.

And always Mr Ito turned off his meter; he felt it his duty to drive the dead to where they could find peace.

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from Tokyo Yōkai, released December 21, 2023

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