Someone to Watch Over You

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It's early 2020, and two strangers begin an unusual connection during the first wave of covid. The pandemic has made proximity dangerous and loneliness acute — the perfect conditions for a relationship that might not survive normal life but thrives in the strange intimacy of shared isolation. Kumi Kimura's debut novella captures the specific emotional texture of pandemic-era connection: the way crisis accelerates vulnerability, the way loneliness makes people reach for whoever is nearest, and the question of whether bonds formed in extraordinary circumstances can hold once the world returns to ordinary. A sharp, poignant story about falling for someone when the usual rules have been suspended — and wondering what happens when they come back.