The Jian. A mythical bird born with only one eye and one wing, thus it cannot fly without its pair. It was the epitome of saying that everything in this world came in pairs. Day and Night. Sun and Moon. Ying and Yang. Light and Shadow. Eros and Thanatos—Life and Death. A girl ruled by Tha...

A short story spin-off from "Into the Night" by YOASOBI and "An Invitation from Thanatos" by Mayo Hoshino. A story about sleep paralysis and the manifestation of someone who doesn't follow the gods.

For the realm of mortals, nothing is actually as it seems.

One one-thousand, two one-thousand, three one-thousand, four-

Time is a twisted dimension, It is a hallucination. It exceeds the realm of imagination, And it causes destruction... In this world, Extroverts tend to be ruled by life, Eros. While, introverts are the opposite, Thanatos. But what about ambiverts?

Death or Life. Thanatos or Eros. Following a serious case of several couples finding the concept of the afterlife tempting, those words became the highlight of the living. They were becoming entranced by the idea of being attracted and called by the gods. Once their calling was heard, people wo...

I wanted to live, to see you again.

This is a short story the first half of which (the 'symbolic' part) I wrote quite a few years ago. About a month ago I roughly doubled it in word count, adding the 'sci-fi' part. They are divided by a *** . In the second part I basically describe 'paradise' itself the way I have imagined it. ...

A boy of unknown origin falls off the edge of the world, as he is about to die he is sent to another dimension similar to heaven. Once he awakens the boy realizes that he is now deceased and no longer a part of the real world. All alone he breaks down into tears, As he tries to figure out if his...

A man waits for his evening intercity train.