Riley Woodward has been unsuccessfully working as a customer success associate in a soulless tech company for years to make ends meet. He didn't like the job--hell, he didn't like much except relaxing with his best friend Abel and playing video games. His life was going nowhere fast until one day...

CONTRACTS OF THE HEART ANTHOLOGY #2: Stanley heads to the library to try to pick up girls, but leaves with a silly little romance instead.

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.

What does it mean to cook food? Why do we cook? A young apprentice seeks to find these answers through the mastery of knife and pan, and the spirit of Gourmon. Gourmon are spirits given form through the preparation of a dish with love, care, and a mystical spice called Mahira Masala. Gourm...

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...

A boy and a girl set off to discover the world away from the confines of their reality, shifting through worlds, continents, and inner dimensions. Seeking to understand love, seeking to understand the universe, and eventually themselves. "She walked through that endless darkness, holding nothin...

A timeless being awakens in a void of absolute nothing. It remembers nothing, yet senses an infinite echo of what could be. From this paradox, this story unfolds as a grand odyssey through layers of reality — each realm shaped by one of the fourteen cosmic concepts. Together, they form the equati...

Emotions are a fickle matter. To be human is to possess emotions, and yet, all the failures and misfortune that befalls us is caused by these so-called humanizing aspects. In a world where reality is further warped by the existence of a reality simulation, how important is it truly to fee...

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...

A short story about drowning in ink. I wrote this sort of as a warm up but also since I had the small idea of it as well. I hope you can enjoy this short little piece for now! Contains bits of symbolism as well as a descriptions.