On the morning of May 12th, sixteen-year-old Tomoyo wakes up with a pelican eel tethered to her spine. That same morning, three bodies turn up in the area. Her childhood friend Raika has been missing for three days. And the sky... why isn't anyone talking about the fact that it's gone? When To...

Aeneas is destined to found Rome... So why is he still stuck in Carthage, playing romantic mind games with Queen Dido?! Venus only cast a tiny love spell to keep her son safe… but now he’s hopelessly entangled in palace romance politics! Meanwhile, Juno is doing everything she can to mak...

In 'Neomera', stars don't dwell in the sky—they collide in the mud. In this city suspended between clouds and illusion, strength isn't forged; it’s broken. To become solid, you must shatter. To find your mind, you must touch the edge of madness. Here, humans are not people; they are merely 'Ve...

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 ...

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.

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...