A century after the AI ended the Great War, seven blocs live in silence, watched and ruled by the Kingdom Come Protocol. But cracks are forming—glitches in enforcers, criminals falsely condemned, and whispers of the lost eighth bloc. In a world without a hero, truth is dangerous, and survival dem...

Power doesn’t vanish. It mutates. Jessica Sanchez thought she’d escaped the programs that built her—the experiments, the lies, the handlers who pulled strings from the dark. But when the President of the United States starts repeating his past word for word, Jessica knows the script has change...

Ever had anxiety when receiving a call from an unknown number? Sometimes it can turn out pretty good, still ;)

Sometimes a helping hand can come from the most unexpected places, as Suki learns when she is contacted on her grandmother's old rotary phone by a strange but neighborly voice. Leading her around with a little game, Suki realizes that to overcome life's perils, one only needs a little guidance.

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

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...