“The best photographs are the ones taken when nobody notices.” Photography student Mikazuki Hajime dreams of capturing truth, not perfection. But when assigned to Japan’s top idol Tsukishiro Rin, his world turns upside down. Behind the lights and cameras, Hajime slowly discovers a girl who’...

I am Melodette, the only non-gifted individual in my spiritually talented family, Verexa. I lack the power to contribute to magical spells and barriers, thus my humble tasks consist of assisting with non-magical chores. I am quite adept at them, and I rarely complain. However, I encountered a pro...

Sae has spent half her life seeking a local legend, guided only by the clues her grandmother left behind. When a new girl in town bursts into her quiet world, the two begin searching beyond the limits Sae once set for herself. What they find is more than Sae ever expected.

This is my Collection of short stories, supernatural, horror, and otherwise unsettling Or maybe pretty funny I dunno <3

Yamataro Mugihara lives as if she’s a failed equation—dreams lost, family dead, and a corrosive guilt she believes she deserves for her grandmother’s murder. Convinced she poisons every life she touches, she buries herself in soul-numbing office work and alcohol, mistaking endurance for atonement...

Marce lives an ordinary high school life early mornings, school routines, familiar faces. Nothing about her days feels unusual. But when she sleeps, she remembers everything. Her dreams don’t fade or blur. They continue. They overlap. Sometimes, she dreams inside another dream, living a second li...

When I was a child, I could find no joy in eating, and because of my poverty, I was also made a target of bullying. The lunchboxes I ate as if hiding were always bland and lonely. But a chance encounter changed my life completely. An encounter with the one and only best friend who stood by m...

At thirty-two, Akio Hukitaske is burned out and hollow—a Tokyo game designer crushed by deadlines and sleepless nights, long separated from the dream he once held close: becoming a pharmacist and helping others heal. Survival replaced hope, and life quietly slipped past him. Then, one impossib...

In a Tokyo that never sleeps, three broken children collide in the shadows it forgets. Kisuno Minazawa is six, emotionally hollow since the night his parents were murdered in their Kyoto mansion. Now a runaway ghost in a tattered black cloak, he drifts through Tokyo’s backstreets, unseen by a ...

Once, there was a prince who seemed to have everything: ivory towers, golden halls, and the love of his people. His name was Mildern Yazukaze, heir to splendor and expectation. Yet beneath the crown lived a secret truth—Mildern despised the life chosen for him. He longed not for power, but for fr...