Word: kawahara
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Fortnight ago, near Kansas City, Misaji Kawahara, Japanese truck-gardener hanged himself to tend his storm-killed horse in another world (TIME, July...
Near Kansas City, Misaji Kawahara, truck gardener, tethered his horse to a tree as a storm approached, sought shelter for himself indoors. Lightning stabbed across the sky. Thunder dinned madness into the frightened horse. Rearing, plunging, it drew the tether rope ever tighter, choked to death as the halter contracted like a hangman's noose...
...Misaji Kawahara came and saw. Misaji had loved the poor horse well. Loosening the halter he tied its free end to a branch twelve feet from the ground, slipped the noose about his own neck, slid off the branch to tend his horse in another world...