A group of childhood friends reunites after it is revealed that the world will end in one year. With nothing left to hold them back, they decide to go on a road trip across Japan, visiting the places they once dreamed of seeing. Along the way, old memories blend with new ones, long-hidden feeling...

As humanity trades flesh for digital eternity, Lena stands apart by being resolutely human. In fact, that was part of her charm: to emulate perfection as closely as she could. Or at least, it used to be. As one of the few remaining human Idols on the Net—a cutthroat, virtual entertainment ...

I spent my day and night just making music and being online, after quitting college because I can't stand those jerks and snobs that insult my works saying that it's just noise, not an artistic work. I pour my feelings in my music while those people just write soulless crap that doesn't mean anyt...

It was a slow day on The Bygone when Zephyr Lee, owner of the struggling upcycling shop Third Chances, found something curious amongst the scrap: a teenager named Audra that fancied herself a runaway. Both haunted by a mysterious past and struggling to live, an unlikely bond quickly forms between...

I've been practicing to write for a while now, slowly accumulating a bunch of word docs of stories and poems (mostly poems) that have no place to call home. So I decided to post them here. Sporadically. And randomly... Whenever I feel like it. My attempt is to make every chapter standalone...

Asuka is still reeling from the void left by her older brother, Kyo's, death. Wracked with guilt, she tries many ways to atone. One day, When Asuka sees news of an asteroid large enough to rival the ones that decimated the dinosaurs is on its way in just a year. After finding her brother's old...

After a mysterious visit from her primordial ancestor, Emrys, who reveals Lily’s latent divine heritage and warns her of the trials ahead, Lily savors a rare day off. Even as Shizuku and Alto plot their next expedition to the Deep Sea District to face Eaura and claim the Fragment of the Waves. Th...

Mahiru Watanabe has always dreamed of crossing the wall that divides the country into East and West. As the youngest daughter of the chief of state in the East, her life is tightly controlled. When she was young, her grandfather filled her heart with tales of the free-sprited people in the West, ...

Flowers can only grow when it rains. All Takeshi Katou wanted was a quiet life. After leaving the military behind, he became a teacher in the rural town of Gero, Japan. But the weight of a single decision, one that left scars deeper than any wound, still follows him. But the past doesn’t let go ...

CONTRACTS OF THE HEART ANTHOLOGY #5 Frankie tries to meet Barbarella in real life, and the two end up going to outer space.