The Ghost Tour of Little Tokyo Wishes to Apologize
A liability letter becomes a supernatural reckoning with Little Tokyo history, bureaucracy, broken agreements, and a ghost tour operated by a literal ghost.
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Award-winning short story writer
Paul Griffiths
Stories about haunted paperwork, inherited power, moral evasions, bad friends, worse fathers, and the lies people tell when the truth starts talking back.
About
Paul Griffiths is an award-winning short story writer and graduate of the Boston University Creative Writing Program. His fiction blends satire, dread, formal experimentation, and emotional pressure, often following people who believe they understand the story they are in — until love, shame, jealousy, or grief reveals otherwise. Prior works have appeared in Tri-Quarterly, Forklift Ohio, and the Sarah Lawrence Review.
His stories move through ghost tours gone awry, inane corporate presentations, bad love, bad friends, failing family fortunes, shaky romantic gestures, and people who mistake control, passion, or talent for virtue. Across the work, Paul is drawn to memory, power, shame, inheritance, and the tragi-comic machinery of self-justification.
Stories
Friends
A small loan between old high school friends curdles into obsession, class resentment, nostalgia, and humiliation.
On the Matter of the Last Interaction I Had with Your Son
A bodyguard confesses to a billionaire father after his son goes missing from a sketchy plant-medicine retreat.
Corrections
A corporate slide deck’s speaker notes reveal a father coaching his son through a depraved corporate restructuring pitch.
Love Story
A woman steals her boyfriend's body of work as a romantic gesture.
The Somnambulist at Rest
Haunted by his dead wife and fading fame, a legendary magician embarks on one final tour in search of an impossible escape
Official documents from unofficial disasters.
Current Project
Paul is currently working on a collection of stories about longing, performance, bad bargains, inherited damage, and the private myths people build around their lives — especially when those myths begin to collapse.