In 1975, Detective Thomas Mercer hunts a child killer in a decaying city. But when obsession drives him to break procedure, he doesn't catch the monster, he empowers him. A catastrophic error leads to a child's death and Mercer's imprisonment. Spanning 25 years, this is not a story of redemption,...

Ayaka is the idol of the decade. A perfect smile, a flawless image… and nights where anxiety is the only thing that feels real. Keeping the mask they gave her has slowly poisoned her life. Then her agency sends her to Takumi — a low-profile image consultant who lives far from the spotligh...

One spin could change everything... for better and (usually) for worse. A life, a wheel, a gamble. Again and again. Over and over. Deeper into the abyss of chances. But in the end, it doesn't have to be said, the house always wins; still the gambler would gamble again. A magician’s assistan...

This story is divided into three seasons, and there is no single main character. Season 1: A boy’s story who gets trapped in a time loop. His life becomes exactly like his professor’s life. Season 2: A boy’s story who builds a time machine and also gets trapped in a loop. Both storylines are c...

Haru Morisaki enters his second year of high school hoping for a normal life. But “normal” ends the moment he pulls a crying girl away from the rooftop edge. Her name is Mina. Red eyes, trembling voice, a smile too soft to be safe. She falls for him instantly. Too fast. Too deeply. A...

These are short stories based on my life experiences, whether it’s a test that seemed interesting or an exam text I can connect to a song. They are drawn from real events but sometimes mixed with a little fiction. Stories written by me, Aka. Or also knows as Trushima Akari Kafka or Miakadou.

A writer returns home after years away, only to find the loch draining in her nightmares. Each dream reveals bones at the bottom—familiar faces of people who are still alive. When one of them turns up dead in real life, she questions whether the loch is showing prophecy… or her own murderous desi...

On his eighteenth birthday night, Lars McKnight wakes up to a horrifying new reality: his body is a monster. His bones reshape themselves, his teeth tear, and his blood turns into molten metal, all while his inner animal struggles to get out. With the national fitness test for new adults on the h...

18-year old college student, Chihara Yoru, is an ordinary guy who dreams of having an easy life. One day, this dream is granted to him. Chihara is summoned into another world as a Hero with three other Japanese students. The country they were summoned into, Medrea, is a complete Utopia for mages,...

Itsuki Tsukihara is ready to disappear. His life, a hollow grayscale of guilt and exhaustion, feels all but over. So when he learns about the **Lucent Project**, a controversial initiative that allows people to donate their remaining lifespan to the terminally ill, he volunteers. A final act of m...