AKIHIKO KAKU KATARIKI

A collection of short stories:

1. Akihiko Kaku Katariki (秋日子かく語りき)
   
   Middle-aged housewife Tatsuko dies after being hit by a runaway taxi, but before moving on she gets to return to life for one week by borrowing the body of Akihiko, a high school girl who survived the same accident.
   
   
2. Long Long Cake (ロングロングケーキ)
   
   A university student meets a shape-shifting alien.
   
   
3. Niwa wa Midori-kawa wa Blue (庭はみどり川はブルー, The Garden is Green and the River is Blue)
   
   After her death from an illness, a young woman temporarily takes over the body of her own three-year-old daughter.
   
   
4. Mizu no Naka no Tissue Paper (水の中のティッシュペーパー, Tissue Paper in Water)
   
   High school girl Kuriko's precognitive dreams cause trouble when she has a dream about her boyfriend falling for someone else.