A dozen short stories from the singular mind behind Lovelier, Lonelier and Kappa Quartet.Being your best, most authentic self can be a somewhat grievous process. The winner of a beauty pageant bursts...

It wasn't love, really. They were just trying to make something out of their lives.Kyoto, 1996, during the passing of Comet Hyakutake: A runaway from Singapore discovers a woman crying in front of a train...

Kevin is a young man without a soul, holidaying in Tokyo; Mr Five, the enigmatic kappa, is the man he so happens to meet. Little does Kevin know that kappas—the river demons of Japanese folklore—desire...