Rihoku wasn’t having the greatest life on Earth. Granted, he wasn’t having the worst one either. He had parents wealthy and influential enough to bribe his school, but weren’t loving enough to take care of him. He had no friends, hobbies, or anything that would give meaning to his life. Trappe...
Felix is seventeen, intelligent, sensitive — and different. Since childhood, he’s been haunted by mysterious sensory distortions: musty smells, disembodied voices, flickering vision, and a female voice in his head that no one else hears. Doctors are baffled. While navigating daily life with sch...
In a nation recovering from the brutal War of the Four Nations, power is no longer measured by weapons, but by the mind. Gifted youths known as Paragons, born after the war’s end, possess supernatural abilities said to be “blessed by the gods.” These elite few are trained at the prestigious Socii...
If you had a million possibilities in your future, yet most of them were forever out of reach… would it be alright if I took a few? Porter, a part-time worker living paycheck to paycheck, wakes up in a strange world where magic is fueled by a person’s future, their dreams, chances, and unreali...
In a world where magic defines worth, Lucien has none. Ryuji, a broken Japanese salaryman, ended his life after losing everything—his job, his wife, his reputation, and most of all, his four-year-old daughter. Branded an abuser and abandoned by everyone, he saw no path forward. But death wa...
The story follows Robert Rosford, a madman who feels like he has lost everything. He made a choice and was a drunkard. He gets news that a funeral is happening for someone he knows, and a lady dressed in black won't stop pestering him to go.
Perhaps it is impossible for man to venture beyond the limits of their own perception and bias in order to meet another one of their kind halfway and attain true acceptance and contentment. Or maybe it happens so often that it is foolish to assign it any kind of greater value and it is a state th...
I guarded the gate for a hundred years. Then they handed me a backpack, ten pounds of gold, and said, “Enjoy retirement.” So I did what any sensible former Gatekeeper would do: I packed salt, pepper, and a book on mushrooms, then walked into another world. Turns out, salt’s worth its weight...
While visiting his friend's rundown apartment, Jamie witnesses something happen one night while looking across the street that leaves him with the desperate hope that it was only a dream.