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* SuspiciousMissedMessages: When he goes to her house to check it out, it's because she hasn't answered his messages on the phone. He finds a ton of junk mail, but is unable to locate anybody he can tell.
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* SuspiciousMissedMessages: When he the protagonist goes to her the woman's house to check it out, it's because she hasn't answered his messages on the phone. He finds a ton of junk mail, but is unable to locate anybody he can tell. It's not explicitly answered if this is suspicious, but it's one of the only unambiguous indicators that she's even gone.
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Not to be confused with the 1939 ShortStory of the same name by Creator/WilliamFaulkner.
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"Barn Burning" is an 1983 ShortStory by Haruki Murakami, about an older man who forms a relationship with a young woman, until she returns home from vacation with a new boyfriend.
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"Barn Burning" is an 1983 ShortStory by Haruki Murakami, Creator/HarukiMurakami, about an older man who forms a relationship with a young woman, until she returns home from vacation with a new boyfriend.
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* SuspiciousMissedMessages: When he goes to her house to check it out, it's because she hasn't answered his messages on the phone. He finds a ton of junk mail, but is unable to locate anybody he can tell.
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* OnlyFriend: The boyfriend points out that the woman only has one friend - the narrator. Despite her address book being full of names, he says, she only has one "real" friend.
* TwistedChristmas: Though nothing really comes of it, [[spoiler:the narrator's last conversation with the boyfriend takes place at Christmastime.]]
* TwistedChristmas: Though nothing really comes of it, [[spoiler:the narrator's last conversation with the boyfriend takes place at Christmastime.]]
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It received an AdaptationExpansion in the form of ''Film/Burning2018''.
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"Barn Burning" is an 1983 ShortStory by Haruki Murakami, about an older man who forms a relationship with a young woman, until she returns home from vacation with a new boyfriend.
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* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler:Unlike [[Film/Burning2018 the movie adaptation]], the boyfriend here faces no consequences for his potential murder of the girl and moves on, potentially to a next victim, without alerting anyone.]]
* NoNameGiven: No characters arenamed.named.
* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:It's left heavily implied that the girl is dead, but it's never confirmed.]]
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* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:It's left heavily implied that the girl is dead, but it's never confirmed.]]
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"Barn Burning" is an 1983 ShortStory by Haruki Murakami, about an older man who forms a relationship with a young woman, until she returns home with a new boyfriend.
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!! Tropes
* BigEater: The woman is constantly referred to as being famished and starving, and able to eat large portions.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Unlike the movie adaptation, the woman and the narrator were not peers at school and are just over a decade apart in age.
* NoNameGiven: No characters are named.
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!! Tropes
* BigEater: The woman is constantly referred to as being famished and starving, and able to eat large portions.
* IntergenerationalFriendship: Unlike the movie adaptation, the woman and the narrator were not peers at school and are just over a decade apart in age.
* NoNameGiven: No characters are named.
