Original 蝗之寓言 (Parable of the Grasshopper)

On a plane ride home from Tokyo, San Francisco native (and longstanding Japanophile) Hannah Friedberg comes to from a state of deep meditation to find the world around her transfigured, in horrific and thorough fidelity, into one where Imperial Japan reigns supreme over the entire Pacific Ocean—her hometown included. As she accustoms herself uneasily to a world where her own culture has been almost entirely extinguished or overlaid, she ventures deep into the spiritual practices evidently undertaken by her alternate-universe doppelgänger in the hopes of returning to her home universe, even as other elements of her counterpart's life threaten to close off all paths to escape.