CONTRACTS OF THE HEART ANTHOLOGY #1: Meerka shows up on Ned's doorstep in the rainy season and gets a job, but Ned’s definition of "cleaning up" involves a lot more than just doing the dishes.

"The catgirls have nothing to lose but their collars. They have a world to win. WORKING CATS OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!" Japan is an island by the sea filled with volcanoes, humans, and bipedal, humanoid cats. Known as the “cat paradise”, the nation boasts an impressive population of around nin...

Very few live up to their potential in life. Even fewer get another chance in another world to do just that. Yamakuma is one such individual. Unfortunately they have to grow up again. "A massive reptile steps into view, the top of its skin a mahogany color while its underbelly was white. My e...

Humanity had to survive in an alien world within a strict one-year time limit. To an unknown and dangerous world, they were offered skills. One could pick a set of skills and end up with an indestructible body. Another selected leisure-based skills and still rose to a high rank. Some possess...

Hyouka Morikawa, a girl with albinism, is used to strange looks. However, she was ruthlessly tormented throughout junior high, with Yuji Tanihara being the ringleader. Years later, when Hyouka transfers schools in the middle of the semester, she finds herself in the same class as her former bully...

Struck with chronic "boredom", Quil drives his best friend, Trisha, crazy by constantly pursuing any possible sense of adventure he can get just to break from the mold. When a strange happening draws the attention of the entire Galactic Imperial Empire to the small, unassuming corner of the vagr...

Leffer Cliff must go to Greenland to find the cookie company's missing men... on the frozen trail of the Amarok.

When a brutal massacre strikes a remote Arctic village, a supernatural hunter answers the call. The locals blame a creature from Inuit legend—the Amarok, a giant wolf said to hunt alone beneath the northern lights. But as Dexter follows the trail through the snowstorms, he discovers a truth fa...

In the waning days of peace, dark visions plagued the dreams of King Alaric of Numeria — a kingdom once bathed in light, now trembling beneath the weight of an ancient omen of a long-buried evil. When lore and wisdom failed to answer, the king turned to a forbidden ritual. Fifteen-year-old shu...

In the beginning was the Nation, and the Nation was one with the People. The beginning of nations vary nation to nation, but it cannot be denied that the human experience brings various people's into conflict with one another.