Guess from seeing the dropping births rates and gender degradation in US makes this related even to us. Well at least black men are living longer lives
I assumed August Lights took place in a area that was devastated by a tsunami. Given the age gap there seemed to be, I kinda thought it might of been the artist telling a story about lovers that were separated by the tsunami back in 2011. Kinda morbid, but that was the theory I initially had.
Considering the stories this author loves to write (like that one series where girls live inside bears) i do believe he enjoys paranormal/sci-fi scenarios.
How about some Mid-life Vanilla?
"Maybe she's working hard so she can have children with the man she loves"? Ah...How ironic coming from THE man she is in love with.
That ending though. Well...I will admit I was holding out hope that they'd make a breakthrough in medicine for a happy ending, but I guess things just aren't that simple. It still ended quite nicely though.