This story takes inspiration from the tale of the 52Hz whale, often called the loneliest whale in the world. I took that idea and added my own spin, shaping a narrative about loneliness, human connection, and the harsh realities of life—while exploring how fragments of childhood innocence can end...

It was a normal day for college students Leo and Kim at their part time job. Yet when their routine is broken by a terrible accident, they are both unwittingly flung across dimensions, landing on a world of fantasy and adventure, and right into the vile clutches of a merciless warlord. Separa...

"Love is dangerous—especially when your girlfriend is a demon lord." Naomi Fudokawa never expected his life to get any weirder. A lonely otaku with zero social skills, he was used to spending his days lost in anime and games. But everything changed the night he met Aiko—the mysterious girl wit...

Born and broken within the confines of Project Nemesis, Sylvester Blackthorne emerged from a brutal experiment aimed at stripping children of their humanity, transforming them into living weapons. He endured the frigid halls of the Cryo Facility, the relentless drills, and the suffocating pre...

Adam's dreams of an exciting life of soccer were crushed, and he moved back to his hometown to work as an arbitrator. After several years of being stuck listening to everyone's petty problems, one of his hearings goes wrong. When he awakens, Adam finds himself in an unfamiliar body in an unknown ...

estar.jp contest. ✔ Bloom's power is both a boon and a bane in a place where magic manipulates nature. She lives modestly among the ordinary people, a plant magician with noble blood coursing through her veins, evading a fate she never desired. However, destiny doesn't wait. A crafty nobleman ...

For some, life gains meaning through a cause, an admired voice, or a dream. For others, the spark comes from fiction: an otome game, a glance through a screen. Just when everything seems to be getting better, something shifts. The dialogues don’t sound the same. The words plead. You’ve played the...

El used to shine. Now he hides in a quiet beachside studio, mixing silence instead of songs. Then Sofi arrives — a blunt, chaotic girl chasing the voice of her drowned sister through a warped cassette. She brings noise. He only knows silence. But somewhere between tape rewinds, unfinished song...

In a universe ruled by ancient celestial beings, warriors known as Ascendants harness primordial Essences to wage war across fractured realms. When Kairos, a reluctant outcast, awakens the legendary Eclipse Flame, he becomes the key to ending a cycle of destruction — or unleashing a darkness that...

"Rome has not lived on through power but through people and immortal ideas that have brought humanity to the stars... why have we forgotten that?" -An Oral History of Bitter and Dead Men in the Post-Colonial Age of Interstellar Conflicts. Fighting for the Republic of Rome in an Alt-History w...