America, 1983- a fringe city, wielding the name "Ambition," is a battleground involving crime syndicates, extremist political organizations, and the oppressive police force known as the Guard. All the while, Soviet spies await their chance to claim the city for themselves. This short story col...

Ashikaga Mari was a woman who suffered from her gambling addiction. After being brutally killed by gangsters she owed money too she found herself awakening with a world she recognized all to well… The video game that her son would constantly harass her about: “The Unyielding Skies”. But not...

At the end of the great age of piracy, Calder and Silas suffer under the cruelty of a ruthless ship. After catastrophic events tear their worlds apart, Calder is forced to flee across the sea, eventually reaching Japan - a land of samurai and relentless violence. Alone and haunted, he struggles t...

In a world of magis, gods, and demons, a hero named Icarus is adored by the people. And shadowing this hero, Azarel, a simple man who admires this hero from afar — but who will have to pay a terrible price. Reborn in his child's body, Azarel swears revenge and makes the heavens tremble with his...

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...

A simple, quiet life. Do you have what it takes? Deep in the valley, a treasure slumbers. They say it’s a gift…a record of the past. Willem just wanted a quiet life outside the village, but when a treasure-hunting team arrives on his property, he’s forced to take notice. Armed with his w...

After being struck by a bolt of lightning, resident shut-in Otis Keizer finds himself lost in another world. On the backs of both of his hands, he finds two numbers that seemingly count down with each day that passes and each death he experiences.

What happens when the creator gets lost inside his world? Erick Fischer, a reclusive English writer and tabletop RPG game master, wakes up in the very fantasy universe he helped create, along with his best friend Nikkita, a russian engineer and longtime brainstorm partner. At first, it was ...

When Anthony Gerhardt finds himself in the cockpit of the spaceship he designed in Project Phoenix Prime, he must come to grips with his new reality quickly—or become a field of rapidly cooling space debris. As if being summoned into a video game were not difficult enough to swallow, his next rev...

Olina was forced to grow up and be an adult at such a young age. With no mother around to teach or protect her, the house she grew up in had no sense of love or care for her. She vows to start putting herself first but with her busy schedule as the Vice President of Denroux Incorporated and her d...