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Original Title	冬の風鈴
Author	牧野 信一
Genre	Modern Short Fiction
Author Type	Male Author
Summary	Plagued by a debilitating creative block and the unsettling sensation that his own words are mere lies, a writer returns to his family home for his father's memorial. The weight of his artistic failure presses down, while the mundane reality of his family life offers no escape from his internal turmoil. His gaze, however, is fixated on a forbidden treasure: his mother's old camphor stationery box, within which lie decades of her private diaries. As an "unfilial man" desperate for inspiration, he grapples with an ugly temptation—to plunder his mother's most intimate thoughts for his novel. What dark truth will he uncover, and what will it cost him to peer into the hidden heart of his own lineage?