I am a drop of rain moving down the mountain. You are also a drop of rain, finding your own way to the sea. Perhaps we will meet again some day.

The ocean isn’t made of many drops of water; the ocean itself is just one big drop of water.

Richard Evanoff has lived most of his adult life in Japan and been active in literary circles in Tokyo as a writer, editor, and performer. His short stories tend towards surrealism and have been published in Dream International Quarterly, Mind in Motion, The Mythic Circle, and other publications.