Godzilla is coming

The Japanese capital was under red alert

Every road was swamped

Cars trying to leave could have been

Statically stacked on top of each other

"Thump!"

37 Izukuma Street Chiyoko

On the 22nd floor of a 1960's high-rise

Was in his bath

The water

Hotter than usual

Was there to take him away from thoughts of

Evacuation

"Thump!"

Concentric ripples flowed to

The pink extremities of his toes.

Ryuunosuke was running in her

Clumsy platform high-heeled pumps
to the nearest metro

She had been to her elderly parents but

No pleading would have them leave.

Through her thick glasses her mom

Said she had seen Godzilla before

She squinted and a tear ran to the tatami

Rushing through the turnstile her dress

Got caught

People were pushing her from behind

She felt pain and then went cold

"Thump!"

Hoshikomuri

An ambitious 28-year old reporter photographer for Reuters was

Running in the opposite direction of the crowd

From Afghanistan to Syria

He had seen conflicts, gunfire, skirmishes

His hand was so steady friends would shake

his table while he ate soup to see some spill

In vain: Hoshikomury slurped his soup without

Missing a drop

"Thump!"

The reporter looked up and up

Feeling the hot air of his breath.

"Thump!"

Manami was an 8-year old lost

In the streets of Tokyo

The swarm of people pushed her away from

Her parents

Her cries were invisible in the

Mounting panic

The streets were empty

Manami picked up a small rope near a lamppost

She started to jump rope on one foot because the other

Lost its shoe
"Thump!"

The sound shock threw her to her knees

She thought she was crying but

She could not hear herself

"Thump!"

Making transactions buying and selling

Copper, silver and even lithium was all

Sakurako was about

He was a smart talker in his smart shark-skinned

Suit, knitted eyebrows and a phone so pronounced

His left ear

Was flatter than the right one

His fingers flashed over his keyboard 

Somehow the empty open space office didn't affect him

"Ah-huh, ah-huh, ahhhhh, ah-huh" he said

Sakurako was never a genius for words yet

He always went to the point

"2,000,000 Yen is too much, you must do betta, betta, ah-ha."

Suddenly his screen went black and the lights went out

He quickly swiveled in his executive chair

Another light

Deeper, more terrifying than any light he had seen

The light of Godzilla's eye!
Illuminated pearls of sweat on his forehead

"Thump!"