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?

In the twenty-ninth century, the Terran Federation spans the stars—an empire of reason, order, and quiet tyranny. Its power rests upon the Sunguard Special Agents: immortal biotic soldiers, living machines sworn by genetic code to serve in perpetuity as the vanguard of humanity. But when an entir...

CONTRACTS OF THE HEART ANTHOLOGY #4 / THE STRANGER AND THE BRIDE #1: Joseph finds Rosa Sharon alone less than an hour from her wedding. He has different plans for her.

Takuya Kaze is a fifteen-year-old high school student with a refined appearance and quiet charisma, yet he remains socially isolated due to his poor interpersonal skills. Viewing the world through a semi-nihilistic and existential perspective shaped by a tragic past, he distances himself from oth...

At the village fair, Max is mocked for claiming he saw a legendary Wolpertinger and is goaded into a cruel bet that puts his pride, and his future, on the line.

Ono Renji is a biology major with an academic death wish. While his peers chase grants and publish safe papers, Renji studies cryptids. The creatures dismissed as folklore, pseudoscience, or outright jokes. He doesn’t claim they exist. He studies the patterns people refuse to ask about. That cu...

Inspired by Kraftwerk’s The Man-Machine, this cyberpunk noir tells the story of Love Vahl, a man turned into the emotional core of a vast AI-ruled city. When forbidden analog music reawakens his erased past, the machine-perfect world begins to fracture. In Neon Europa, emotion is regulated, de...

"You" are living the boring human life. Stable job, small town, cozy cabin, living alone. Every day is nothing but a routine. Until one day, "you" meet a tourist from out of town and hear a voice in your head that whispers, "Time is up..."

Ayaka Mizuno once had everything: a husband, two children, and a rising career as a manga artist. One sleepless night, exhaustion led to a car crash. Ayaka survived. Her family did not. Two years later, still haunted by guilt, she retreats to Shiomori, a secluded village in the Nagano mountain...

Fire Doesn’t Want to Hurt You (Short-complete story) ————— “Don’t go near the fire.”they said And yes—it hurt. But I stayed. Because I wanted to understand.. And finally— through ash and scar, the fire stopped being a monster. It became something else. My companion. ——— I...