When is it right to be courageous? When is it right to be cautious? Would you risk your life to save the world or hope for the best and wait out the storm? These are the questions, Tayo, and his comrades have to ask themselves when they and hundreds of thousands of people get trapped in the v...

They told her it was a simple recovery job. A stolen Noh mask. An anonymous client. A clean break from the ghosts of Belize. But when Jessica Sanchez arrives in Kyoto, she finds more than an artifact—she finds a trail of bodies, a whisper of a forgotten project, and a photograph that shouldn’t...

The first recorded contact with the beings "Dreamers." This short story takes us to the nation's capital, Matria, narrating the events from the perspective of the second group, the one that decided to take a different path: toward the city. As they face the most violent social collapse, they be...

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A young man voluntarily erases his memories to escape his past. Living as a monotonous Japanese salaryman, he unexplainably begins to find himself reliving fragments of his old life through vivid, disjointed flashbacks. With no control over when or where he’ll be taken next, he begins to piece to...

A young boy meets a mysterious young woman at a plum grove who only appears during the blossoming season. Every year she arrives with the blossoms then vanishes without a word a few weeks later. Over the years, the two bond and together they begin to unravel the mystery of who she is. Naoe’s the...

She took the case for the money. A bored housewife, a cheating husband, a seedy hotel rendezvous—just another Tuesday in paradise. But when both the husband and his lover end up dead behind a locked door, and Jessica’s name shows up on a hidden file buried deep in Vanguard’s old archives, the ...

In the grim bleakness of a world facing its end, society grapples with crumbling normality, accepted apocalypse. In fact, people wrestle with their last decisions — some people try to cling to a certain order of life and some people turn to a sort of anarchic way. As humanity awaits death during ...

In a fractured world on the edge of annihilation, a mysterious boy named Zero awakens with no past—only cursed blue flames and the scars of forgotten war. Forged in fire, he becomes a wandering weapon in a kingdom ruled by fear and shadow. But something ancient stirs within him: a Hollow spirit, ...

Tom, an ordinary high school student, never expected danger to find him in the park near his home. A strange encounter with a mysterious picture book traps him in a world where nothing is as it seems. There, he finds Rena—his childhood friend who had mysteriously disappeared—waiting for him...