Life is a game of chance. Some come out on top, while others drown in their mistakes. A simple bet can make or break the next hundred years of your life. But miss, and only misfortune awaits.
Wu, 20, an unemployed young man armed with two functioning legs, planned to board a bus in search of a better job opportunity in another city. Little did he know, one small decision is all it takes to ruin it.
In a poor neighborhood where reality offers no mercy, Ryo finds meaning only inside an online FPS ranking system. What starts as a game quickly turns into obsession as his skills begin to cross the line between virtual and real. Alongside Miu, a silent teammate, and the cold strategist Ayla, Ryo ...
Mark is broke, restless, and quietly convinced he is better than most people around him. Over a casual afternoon of coffee and table tennis with his friend Alex, his inner world begins to unravel. Each serve, each joke, and each moment of silence exposes his need for validation, his fear of failu...
Felix was always unlucky, but he tried his best to live a normal life. That ended when he died on his way home after helping with the school festival. Yet, this is where his true journey begins. He has found himself in another world, inhabiting the body of a boy his age. What dangers lie ahead? A...
A few days after the London incident, the chess club is once more faced with a crisis. Following a seemingly innocent stream by Iori and Carol, an American politician with presidential ambitions suddenly begins targeting them and their friends, calling for aid from the Broadstone family, a family...
Our truck was the only thing moving in the dead city when we found the girl. She carried no answers, just an RPG. When the monster-pigeon dove from the red sky, I failed to kill it. She didn't. One shot turned it into a mountain of safe, edible meat. The celebration died when the weeping st...
Since humanity nuked themselves into oblivion chockolate become a rare commodity. Young kitsune sets on a daring quest to find last reminds of her favourite snack but maybe she will find something else instead? I published it before in Short Stories, reuploading it for the Event
Taren Elarvek falls asleep in the modern world… and wakes up 2,000 years later. His home is gone. The planet is wild—trees pierce the clouds, flowers dwarf houses, dragonflies hunt like jets, and wolves wear living stone armor. Humanity clings to hidden pockets of technology and magic stones th...
When critical damage forces veteran recon pilot Risou to dock with an enemy atmospheric glider high above the Earth, he expects hostility. He doesn’t expect the pilot to be a girl. Or for her - a haunted dreamer - to share a past more tangled with his own than either of them understands. S...