[Updates every Friday. Read the full story on novelconbini.com!] Edo Period, 17th Century. Terazawa Rin is the daughter of a small daimyo family. One day, her entire family is massacred and Rin is sold off to the temple of a violent cult. Two years later, she meets a powerful shapeshifter w...

Rancid smoke and blueing copper crawls its way around derelict slums, while a pristine castle stands high above. A young boy grows in this harsh land of dwindling food and coal. Yet unbeknownst to him, he stumbles into a secret far greater than he could ever imagine.

At the world's end, Celeste Montedragon finds herself in a familiar world, One ravaged by a devastating outbreak that wiped out much of humanity. A strange mist quickly swept the vacant land where survivors were pushed into small populations. Survivors look at each other with suspicion while s...

Everyone has the right to a small space in their mind to dream, even if their dreams come from stories that may never truly exist. After all, sometimes fantasy is the only place where the world feels fair. Maybe...

“It’s cold Bismuth… Let’s go home.” Surrounded by colleagues who devote their short lives to the prospect of War between Worlds, Cobalt Aspire considers such a purpose worse than death. His only friend was lost to the tragic crime of wishing only to run away—leaving the young man alone with noth...

In life, we are all numbers. It's just the ones that wear them that are the problem. Yes, the ones that wear them. The ones that wear the numbers. The ones that greed, and the ones that never stop craving. In this world, the ones that kill reign supreme. Coal, a hopeless and unfortunate boy, ...

Osamu is a quiet, well-mannered boy who carries a lifetime responsibility: to make sure the talisman on his friend Yurei’s forehead never falls off. It was a promise made to Yurei’s parents, a duty Osamu has upheld without question, without pause. He’s never asked why. Never wondered what might h...

Through incredibly vivid shared dreams, Mateo, a struggling young artist from a forgotten Portuguese town, and Seraphina, a worldwide famous but deeply lonely American pop diva, create an unbreakable link in a romance that genuinely crosses borders. Between her golden prison of celebrity and his ...

One day, Elias Jund had been seeing off his sister as she moved to the capital for a business opportunity. The next, Elias finds himself on an island where all the water has been replaced with ink, the sun has a face, and carnivorous plants roam. If that wasn't enough, his entire world has 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...