In a pool of her own blood, a girl bleeds to death. The only company she has with her is the golden statue staring down at her. Will she go to heaven or to hell? She couldn’t help but feel the latter choice to be the truth. The statue smiled smugly as she lay dead beneath its feet. Opening her...

After classes, I always sold mitarashi dango in the quiet Yuenchi park. And every afternoon, a girl with golden hair sits on the same bench across from me, always sketching, and always stuck in the same routine as me. She was my classmate, Kousaka Akari—and I can call her the epitome of a rigi...

In the kingdom of Velisandria, where the streets at night are roamed by creatures of bloodlust, Elise Whitefield knows nothing beyond obedience: protect the realm, slay the night, and guard the borders of Duskmoore where the dark forest hungers just beyond. Forged in the cold fire of duty, her...

Shy and quiet Mia wishes for a change in her senior high school year. When she sees a shabby-looking boy get his love confession rejected, she decides to help. She offers him a grand makeover, but not without stuttering and fidgeting the whole time. Little does she know that beneath the messy ...

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.

Laughing as she said, “I got tickets for a resort hotel,” Yuka invited her along, and Misaki set out on the trip, reluctant though she was. A seaside hotel, white sand beaches, a calm restaurant—. A little luxurious, slightly out of place, and yet, for some reason, time passed in a way that wou...

“Hey, Roland, what’s your favorite, ice-cream flavor?" Asks Riyik “I like,” “Pickled beats and bacon flavor it is,” “I’m not eating that” “would you all pipe down, it’s hard to hear with this thing as it is” says Reiyeka listening to her headset, listening to voices in a nearby building. “We’ll s...

The girl is a survivor whose dark and horrific past eats away at her very heart and soul, leading her down a path from which she may or may never rise from. The boy is a hollow being crushed under the weight of a past unknown even to him, shattering any humanity left in him. When the two meet,...

Young, impulsive actor Toma, 22, and his 35-year-old pragmatic politician girlfriend Akari are having a difficult time avoiding the always-annoying media. Will their relationship survive the harsh and always-opinionated public eye?

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.