The story is told from the perspective of a gun that goes through various stages of life, changing from owner to owner. Who really holds power?

Hirano Chihiro is a 19-year-old girl with a hobby of researching cryptids. Her unusual interest mocked by society and becomes a source of concern and embarrassment for her parents, who worry about her future. When they attempt to arrange a safer path for her life, Chihiro chooses to leave home...

Yamataro Mugihara lives as if she’s a failed equation—dreams lost, family dead, and a corrosive guilt she believes she deserves for her grandmother’s murder. Convinced she poisons every life she touches, she buries herself in soul-numbing office work and alcohol, mistaking endurance for atonement...

CONTRACTS OF THE HEART ANTHOLOGY #8 Tiny shows up in Westtown to be with the one he loves, but she comes with a price only the Sheriff's wife might be able to pay.

Yamaguchi Kitai is a patrol officer under the Seigi Division of the Miraii City Police Department. His strong dedication to duty makes him respected by his colleagues, but it also creates distance between him and his family. No matter how many promises he makes to his daughter, he always ends up ...

Three gangsters running out of bullets, time, and luck.

A writer returns home after years away, only to find the loch draining in her nightmares. Each dream reveals bones at the bottom—familiar faces of people who are still alive. When one of them turns up dead in real life, she questions whether the loch is showing prophecy… or her own murderous desi...

The Chupacabra's July follows Hernandez, a sarcastic but sharp-tongued forensic investigator in Mexico City, who is called to a gruesome crime scene in a remote village—dozens of goats drained of blood, with no signs of forced entry. As Hernandez investigates, he uncovers claw marks, a bear drain...

The world is alive. It hears. It remembers. And now… it is wounded deeply. In a world filled with greedy and sinful humans, where power replaces justice, and the people are cheap meat for the machines of tyranny, their screams are no longer heard by kings, nobles, or blood merchants. But the w...

Yuuwaku Kumoshi is a teenager who, like everyone else, is searching for true happiness. She is tired of being judged and trying to fit in as a normal person. She wants to try new things, legal or not. Little does she know that choices can be irreversible, especially the wrong ones.