Do you ever feel so much pain and sorrow that you can't keep it locked up anymore? I do, that's why I'm writing this now. This is just a collection of my poems and some of my memories from across my life.
Ayaka Mizuno once had everything: a husband, two children, and a rising career as a manga artist. One sleepless night, exhaustion led to a car crash. Ayaka survived. Her family did not. Two years later, still haunted by guilt, she retreats to Shiomori, a secluded village in the Nagano mountain...
Rui Takamine only ever wanted answers about the world around him, about himself, about why he feels alien among his peers. But when a long-lost friend, someone he believed had died twice, suddenly reappears, Rui is drawn into a secret that binds fragments of memory, the science of fiction, and be...
What Stayed Behind is a quiet series of short stories, each beginning with something small—something forgotten, unused, or left behind. The first volume tells a longer, meditative tale: when a young woman finds a pair of unopened dog nail clippers, it awakens memories of her late companion and...
Itsuki Tsukihara is ready to disappear. His life, a hollow grayscale of guilt and exhaustion, feels all but over. So when he learns about the **Lucent Project**, a controversial initiative that allows people to donate their remaining lifespan to the terminally ill, he volunteers. A final act of m...
"I sought the freedom of nothingness, and was instead condemned to the tyranny of a second life." This new world, a stage of petty wars and grand illusions, demanded a performance. But I am a poor actor. The sickness in my soul was too plain to see. They saw my detachment not as a wound, but a...