The paperwork stating that the Warden of the East, Yuemith, would be observing humanity made no more sense the third time Ciel read it than it had the first. Observing humanity was all well and good, but doing it at the side of a habitual hermit made no sense whatsoever. As she failed to get ...

Anya Petrova, a fading actress, joins a reality dating show to reclaim her career. Kai Ito, a viral hero thrust into fame, is reluctantly paired with her as a “fake couple.” Forced together under constant cameras and public scrutiny, they clash, compete, and slowly discover the real person ben...

The night Kaien was born, the sky screamed—and the world decided it needed someone to blame. Disasters followed. Dungeons trembled. Monsters hesitated. People whispered. Before Kaien could speak, he was already named a calamity. Raised under fear and suspicion, he learns early that survival is n...

They want to kill me? When you have a pure affinity for the rarest elemental magic, everybody wants a piece. My mom came from a long line of Dragon God sorcerers and she left it all to me before I could talk. Now a creepy company wants me making weapons of mass destruction, the government wants m...

“Hey, Roland, what’s your favorite, ice-cream flavor?" Asks Riyik “I like,” “Pickled beats and bacon flavor it is,” “I’m not eating that” “would you all pipe down, it’s hard to hear with this thing as it is” says Reiyeka listening to her headset, listening to voices in a nearby building. “We’ll s...

In the year of 5,000, a robot has caught the human disease and instead of going to the scrapyard, it chose to be pretend to be a human to experience what life truly is about. A story that starts ordinary but takes unexpected twist. Short story.

Every 300 years, the greatest sinner on Earth is chosen from Hell and given one final chance in another world. Ogon, a Hell guardian appointed by the gods to oversee the sinner’s transmigration ritual, has his boring life in hell cut short when his soul is mysteriously swapped with the sinner’s. ...

Death was mercy. The orb was not.” Bjorn never asked to be chosen—he only wanted to disappear. But when the broken, 21-year-old awakens in a prison shaped like a world and ruled by a faceless witch, he learns that even despair has a price. Here, pain is survival, sins divide the living, and me...

There have always been the Shirokami, who create for the sake of people, and the Kurokami, who destroy for the sake of people. Their powers are equal, maintaining peace between them. Despite protecting everyone, they must remain hidden — the more people know about them, the more their powers will...

A series of episodic short stories related to the similarly titled main story. Delving deeper into the lives of the main and supporting characters, each short story is canon in relation to the main timeline, though not all (or possibly any) of the tales occur during the three/ four weeks that the...