CONTRACTS OF THE HEART ANTHOLOGY #8 Tiny shows up in Westtown to be with the one he loves, but she comes with a price only the Sheriff's wife might be able to pay.

Emotions are a fickle matter. To be human is to possess emotions, and yet, all the failures and misfortune that befalls us is caused by these so-called humanizing aspects. In a world where reality is further warped by the existence of a reality simulation, how important is it truly to fee...

Frankie and Lisa went for a walk in the woods looking for birds to watch. Instead they found a magical robot servant from another world with a few screws loose and a recall warning issued. Hopefully nothing too severe goes wrong...

Shinko Inori is not a man of faith. He knows that praying is worthless, and that God doesn't exist. He knows that there are logical explanations for everything. Even getting sent to another world, where his prayers come true and elves are real, doesn't prove anything about God existing in his e...

"Prospector’s Attempt at Sourdough Spellcasting" delves into the despair and a subsequent metaphysical transformation of Shikara Kaekari. A retail worker, who is trapped in a monotonous existence after failing to live to her full potential as an aspiring actress. Her brief interactions with eccen...

In the late 1800s, humanity unlocked Chrono Energy—a force that could bend time itself. This discovery, powered by the rare mineral Tempusite, reshaped the world but also unleashed chaos. Nations fought to control it, triggering the Great Chrono War, a conflict so destructive it fractured reality...

Clark has all the typical concerns of a transfer student in a new town: making friends, avoiding bullies, keeping up with class. His hopes for an exciting year are on the right track when he meets two remarkable girls on the same day. Sabrina is his new class president. She's confident, brilliant...

Ayase Fujimoto works hard to hold her family together, trading her dreams for stability in a Tokyo advertising firm. Her life changes when she’s assigned to design a campaign for Ren Ichinose, Japan’s most popular — and most arrogant — actor. Their first meeting ends in sparks, not the romanti...

Ren Sato lives an ordinary high-school life – spending his days playing computer games, reading manga and light novels, and occasionally doing sports either to clear his mind or because his little sister, middle-schooler Yumeko Sato, forces him to. But what he enjoys most in the evenings is watch...

Mibayashi Haruno is an ordinary high school girl—cheerful, optimistic, and hardworking. Behind her simple everyday life, however, lies a secret even she doesn’t realize. Since childhood, her grandfather had always told her that she possessed a “great power” she must never reveal. Haruno never und...