Kusari Doi: In October The Rain Never Stopped

Following the death of his best friend during a generationally destructive hurricane that completely decimated his small town, Jin Kinoshita spent the next eight years of his life decomposing in the southern heat. Each day, slaving for minimum wage at a rundown fast food restaurant to barely be able to pay rent.

His dream of becoming a professional artist alongside his friend Leo Ainzberg was the only thing keeping him going. Without his friend to encourage him, Jin allowed all of his talent to slip away from him like sand in an open palm. Burdened with the pain of watching his friend slowly die of cancer, while simultaneously failing to capture anything he ever sought for, Jin repeated his cycle of suicide attempts and desperate self harm rituals in order to rid himself of the crushing weight of those failures.