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...

Cy is a burned out rock superstar finding refuge in the business side of the industry. Kiia is a long time rival even though they never met. After a competition to find a new opening act for Cy's old bandmate, Tony, forces Cy and Kiia to meet, they must navigate their own stubbornness, biases, an...

This was not how Siobhan Teague expected to spend her summer vacation. Taking an two-week internship with her teacher and self-proclaimed cryptozooloigst is no walk in the park when the target of his research is the enigmatic Appalachian horror popularly known as a Not-Deer, with the lofty goal ...

Every night at 3:59 A.M., a forbidden minute stretches into an endless hour —the 25th Hour. A hidden realm where Akihabara is rebuilt from regret, and human guilt becomes power. Those pulled inside manifest a Lantern — a weapon born from their deepest wounds. Those who break become Wraiths, lost ...

As is known, Earth was dominated by an intelligent species called Homo sapiens, or, in everyday language, humans. Human imagination had given rise to a parallel universe of their world, one where divine beings such as Angels, Dominions, and Demons reigned supreme. Unlike Earth, this world was ...

"Treephat is haunted by recurring visions of a beautiful woman in ancient Ayutthaya attire. Sometimes, these dreams are sweet; other times, they turn into nightmares. Until one day... the woman from her dreams appears in real life, drawing her into past secrets and a vow that binds them across li...

In the past, a common belief was that a photograph can steal a part of a person’s soul. It actually does—but not of people. Every picture steals power from the location it depicts, reducing the barrier between the living world and the Deadrealm. Sekiguchi Naoya stumbles into the strange world ...

Blood is a contract… and Yuna signed it long ago.

CONTRACTS OF THE HEART ANTHOLOGY #1: Meerka shows up on Ned's doorstep in the rainy season and gets a job, but Ned’s definition of "cleaning up" involves a lot more than just doing the dishes.

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...