A night when I enjoyed having an actual conversation.

It started as a simple day at the arcade. When Ellie finds a doll that she'd been longing for, she stops at nothing to win it at a crane game, but at the cost of her sanity and her friend's patience.

I guarded the gate for a hundred years. Then they handed me a backpack, ten pounds of gold, and said, “Enjoy retirement.” So I did what any sensible former Gatekeeper would do: I packed salt, pepper, and a book on mushrooms, then walked into another world. Turns out, salt’s worth its weight...

A man flees to the ends of the earth to find meaning in his sheltered, gray world, and finds something much more valuable with the help of another. It all started that spring, when she appeared in thulian...

We only shared a moment but it’s lived with me ever since*** In a quiet corner of Japan, Luza finds a girl who changes his view of the world. A year later, spring returns along with the traces of her smile, and a promise not yet forgotten.

In an age where magic fades beneath the glow of electric light, a butler accepts a peculiar assignment: watch over the eldest son of a wealthy elven family. Cold, distant, and bound by duty, Everett Valandor seems every bit the noble elite. But as the days stretch on, what begins as simple observ...

Dalam keheningan yang menggantung, ia memeluk kerinduan dan kerapuhan yang tak bisa ia sembunyikan, namun perlahan belajar bahwa ringkih bukan kelemahan, dan merengkuh luka adalah bagian dari bertumbuh. Ia memilih berdamai—menyimpan kenangan dalam kotak kayu, mengganti kopi dengan teh, dan duduk ...

Two best friends, Crystal and Amy are finally in Japan! Crystal wants to do everything while Amy is a bit more focused. Regardless of how they spend their time, this is going to be the best week of their lives!

See, that’s the curse she placed on me all those years ago. I see it in the hundreds of grotesque butterflies lining the veins along her wrists. But butterflies aren’t pink in nature—it’s ink, and paint, and blood that coats her lips and spills into the shadows. “She looks a lot like someone...

The life of a prisoner.