Seventeen-year-old Joren never asked to be touched by the divine, but when a strange voice pulls him to the long-lost Supernova Portrait, his life changes forever. Now marked as an Auspex, one of the rare and dangerous few gifted with godlike powers, Joren is thrown into a world of hunters, hi...

PROMISES MADE IN AN INTERNET CHAT STAY IN THE INTERNET, RIGHT...? Sora Yamamoto was a legend in the gaming world, known by the handle "Aegis." Throughout the years he spent protecting other players, Sora made countless promises of eternal love and protection to various users. After all, what h...

"In a world of magic, Zio is learning how to breathe." While mana flows through everyone else, Zio was born with his mana sealed. No spells. No talent. Only a body forced to endure what others command. When the seal finally cracks, it does not grant him power. It awakens pain. Torn from ...

When a mysterious pink asteroid crashes into Earth, it brings with it a new element – D3. Scientists call it harmless, but the world is about to learn the horrifying truth. Yash, a 17-year-old boy shattered by the death of his father in the impact, lives each day in hollow emptiness. But when ...

Deep in the forest stands a mysterious abandoned house. There, people burdened with pasts and circumstances share the same time together. A chance encounter, and quiet exchanges. In a life lived alongside supernatural beings, hearts slowly draw closer. This is a gentle and mysterious tale o...

Boy meets girl. Girl meets boy. While this constitutes the standard narrative protocol, this story is specifically concerned with a more volatile variable: the fleeting infatuation. Have you ever observed a stranger on the bus for a two-second interval and instantaneously calculated that y...

"Is love really worth the trouble?" This story follows Sato Hiroshi as he visits his mother's hometown for the first time and is met with an unexpected surprise. He meets Chiyoko, a sheltered girl who doesn't know all that much about the world, strangely enough she is also supposedly waiti...

Yosuke Midori is a 25-year-old who has never had a girlfriend in his life, after trying out going to a party he realized that he is okay the way he is, but is he really okay with it? An encounter is all that it takes to shift one's perspective, and Yosuke is going to find out why.

A single act of heroism ties Kouya’s life to a mysterious transfer student. After an accident, a family tragedy, and a sudden new place to call home, he begins relying on the one person who never left his side. But while he sees devotion, someone else sees patterns. In a story about fate...

In the future, when the aether that lets light flow through the universe is stretched to its finality, two scientists attempt to save the earth from a cold, quiet death. This was a short story for a small "End of the World" contest. I won. There were only 2 of us that entered though. I refuse...