It’s not every day you get a phone call from yourself.

They told her it was a simple recovery job. A stolen Noh mask. An anonymous client. A clean break from the ghosts of Belize. But when Jessica Sanchez arrives in Kyoto, she finds more than an artifact—she finds a trail of bodies, a whisper of a forgotten project, and a photograph that shouldn’t...

The sun vanished without warning. Days turned to weeks in endless darkness as Earth began to freeze, nature withered, and humanity collapsed. In this dying world, I was alone without fear, without regret, ready to fade with the cold. Then I found her. A freezing, fragile orphan named Ayuma. ...

a story about everyone but You

When is it right to be courageous? When is it right to be cautious? Would you risk your life to save the world or hope for the best and wait out the storm? These are the questions, Tayo, and his comrades have to ask themselves when they and hundreds of thousands of people get trapped in the v...

Nestled beneath the looming shadows of Mt. Horaji lies the enigmatic Hotel Toyohashi―a place where time blurs and secrets refuse to die. For decades, the hotel's Room 219 has whispered of a haunting melody and the restless spirits of lovers caught in a deadly curse. In 1930s Japan, heartbroken...

The first recorded contact with the beings "Dreamers." This short story takes us to the nation's capital, Matria, narrating the events from the perspective of the second group, the one that decided to take a different path: toward the city. As they face the most violent social collapse, they be...

Tom, an ordinary high school student, never expected danger to find him in the park near his home. A strange encounter with a mysterious picture book traps him in a world where nothing is as it seems. There, he finds Rena—his childhood friend who had mysteriously disappeared—waiting for him...

She took the case for the money. A bored housewife, a cheating husband, a seedy hotel rendezvous—just another Tuesday in paradise. But when both the husband and his lover end up dead behind a locked door, and Jessica’s name shows up on a hidden file buried deep in Vanguard’s old archives, the ...

Retired Sunguard Special Agent Mikhail Johnson has lived a quiet life on Jerr, far from his past as a fearless operative. But when a dangerous Terran supremacist resurfaces with a personal vendetta, Mikhail is forced to confront his demons. Teaming up with his successor, biotic Special Agent Rehe...