The Suicide Forest

By El Torres

The artist, GHW'd signed and sketched an adorbs skull amongst a dark tree background in '16 for someone on the copy I acquired. The tale begins with a forestry worker seeing the signs to dissuade people from killing themselves in the forest, to think of their parents and seek help. He and female worker discuss how many bodies were discovered in the year, nearly a hundred, and how it'd first been used because the elderly and young couldn't survive the diseases going around and get left like no-longer-cute puppies. The girl jokes about how Taro doesn't need to be afraid of the girl from the Ring getting him, focusing on the signs they needed to display around the forest.

Meanwhile, a girl opens her heart to lurv for the guy she was eating with in a cafe, discussing the history of the city they were in never closing shop, the guy, Alan takes it well and the 2 are content with their date. Unfortunately, Masami's pleading to not get dumped by him after a year together, she adamant she could make him happy this time. Alan makes clear how often they'd attempted to get this to work, and failed, so when she scratches her face from despair, he's more resolved to get her to figure her own shit out (agreed), her last threat as he walks down the street, to wack him with a bottle, and he biffing off with a head wound. In the forest, their service pup leads them to another body.

The female worker shows her dark humor by commending this fool for at least going off the main trail, but this only due to how often people ruined the forest in general by dying there, anyways. They return to the station with it and would be ready to hand it off for the morgue pick up next morning. Even though Taro was supposed to do it, the girl spends the night next to the corpse per superstitious tradition, it looking zombified next to its dead body. Fun, will read more if it's readily cheaply available!