Natsu No Sagashimono -what We Found That Summer Site

We didn’t set out to find anything in particular that summer. That’s the secret of all good discoveries—you stumble into them while looking for something else, or while looking for nothing at all.

But the beetle was never the point.

We found a glass bottle with a dried-up letter inside, the ink faded into ghost-squiggles. We couldn’t read a word, but we buried it again, deeper, because some messages are meant to stay lost. Natsu no Sagashimono -What We Found That Summer