What Stayed Behind is a quiet series of short stories, each beginning with something small—something forgotten, unused, or left behind. The first volume tells a longer, meditative tale: when a young woman finds a pair of unopened dog nail clippers, it awakens memories of her late companion and...

Elisa wished she could speak to the girl she was before the poison pierced her flesh. Why, after years of preparation, she couldn’t go through with her destiny—to plunge a blade into the heart of her vampiric husband, Count Kael Blac’hil. Why she was the victim of the dagger instead. She h...

Japanese version: https://ncode.syosetu.com/n9272kv/ 10th.pashbooks.jp/award When the mysterious Count Ivar, a creature of the night, proposes to Rosamund, a peasant girl, she is ripped from her ordinary existence and thrust into a nightmare. She discovers that she is not just a prisoner b...

Kaito Moriyama dies unnoticed—just as he lived. But in the Lantern Inn, a resting place for burdened souls, he quietly begins helping others heal. In silence and stillness, he finds meaning. Even an invisible life can become someone else’s guiding light.

"In a world where divine power manifests as ancient 'Fists,' granted by Lord Shiva to defend humanity, Lewosito awakens from a six-year coma with absolutely no memory. His mind is a void, but his body pulses with the raw, untamed force of the Fire Fist. Plunged into a brutal war he doesn't unders...

A failed experiment. An abandoned laboratory. A plan to save the world, at the cost of what makes us human. Niko and Chloe grew up solving mysteries together. The cousins were a detective duo, always sticking their noses where they really weren’t supposed to—even so much as a rumor sent them h...

The world is ending. In one year, the god Vorath-Astra will descend and erase everything. The only hope for survival lies in the Celestial Oaths—trials set by the gods, granting the victors passage to the next world. Fiora Di Lorenzo, a fallen noble, refuses to waste her last year in despair. ...

A quiet high school girl with a broken heart, Aika drifts through her days like a ghost — unseen, untouched. Until one day, a mysterious student appears: Himeko. Beautiful. Gentle. Strange… and dangerously attentive. An intoxicating bond begins to form between them. But as Aika unravels, her v...

After the great collapse, the grand city of Argia remains a spiraling city that beacons all in the world to its walls. A land thought holy and cursed and the only place on earth where humanity has chained the devils that ended the world into their will. A city ruled by power, money, and soul...

Each chapter is short and this novel would be short.