Fujiwara Kaoru

Kaoru has second sight: he sees things other people can’t. At the funeral of a murder victim, he runs into two people. One is out for vengeance, and the other is the murderer…

Two nameless siblings: a sister with a heart condition which prohibits her from having sex, and a brother who only has sex with sleeping women. The brother has a new girlfriend, and the sister dreams of dying. What once was will determine what must be.

From Storm in Heaven: A collection of short stories: Our Vast Loneliness: For a long while now, I've been prone to losing things. It's the things most important to me that I lose, and it's always after I lose them that I realize it. And then, they're suddenly returned to me. Love Letter: A woman has just been discharged from hospital due to her successful eye surgery. As she steps out into the world, she sees her blind self… All of Sully/Lily: A man believes that people he loves should have spare bodies. His daughter happens to have one… Airport: A man drops off a pregnant woman to the airport… Fetish: An injured girl meets a man that thought her appearance was "cool"…

From Storm in Heaven: A collection of four short stories. Story 3: Chihiro and Chiaki are twins with a special ability; Chihiro sees strange visions triggered by the things around him, but it's Chiaki who, without actually seeing them, knows what the visions mean. The trouble Chiaki has caused by blurting out the truth behind the visions has caused Chihiro to shut himself away to keep the visions from coming. But then, one day, his brother asks him to step outside…

From Evil Flowers: How many doors must you open before you can reach heaven? Is it after the next one, or the one after the next one?

Koizumi Kanna is infatuated with the man who came to the restaurant she works at and ordered a burger with no onions. Little does she know, Toujou Ren is interested in her as well, but for a different reason. Kanna just so happens to be the mirror image of a woman he knew a very long time ago. It is for that reason that he saves her when she nearly dies in a car accident. But the life he gives Kanna is far different from the one she lived before, and she's not certain it's the kind she wants…

A collection of short stories. White Room Angels exist in both black and white. The white angels have pleasant jobs, like making flowers bloom and warning people of danger. The black angels have ugly jobs, like making people sick. When she was a child, the black angel Lily admired the white angels, and now as an adult she's decided she wants to be one. A Story of Long Ago Long ago, an angel born from a daughter and her mother's lover remembers back to when she was born. The Dreamer A girl dreams the same dreary dream every night, and meets a blind man who describes a blue sky to her. She searches for the blue sky. Imagination Envious of the boy who always places first in her art school, she snaps at him, only to realize how wrong she was to do so. I Dreamt of a Delicious Little Finger Dreaming that in a dream, your body parts turned to bread…! Cups A depressed girl, seeing that her kitten is pregnant, works so that she will have money to afford kittens, only to find tragedy. The Edge of the Sky, to the Furthest Horizon A man searches for his true love.

A collection of 9 one-shots done by Fujiwara Kaoru. If you like dark stories you’ll enjoy this volume.

A series of loosely-connected vignettes, each lead to the next by a stray thought. A young hit-man chased from his home; a dropped key to a bloody room; a meat-locker to hide a corpse; the watchful eyes of crows; a criminal's chance at salvation; the sight of music in the air. Where will this story take you, and in what place will it end?

Originally published in the April 2015 issue of Comic Spica, this is a series of astrology-themed one-shots written by author Ishii Yukari and drawn by twelve different artists, collected in an anthology. Chapters: Nagareboshi no Ochita Saki. by Yamada Daisy Like the Stars, Like the Snow (Hoshi no Youna, Yuki no Youna) by Tanikawa Fumiko Kowai Hito by Hisaka Mika Madou Hoshi no Yukusaki by Amano Sakuya Will by Umino Tsunami Tsuki wo Otte by Chiya Toriko Fish and My Spica (Sakana to Watashi no Spica) by Tanemura Arina My Unexceptional Yesterday (Nandemonai Kinou no Hanashi) by Itoi Nozo A woman has a seemingly unremarkable story about a chance meeting. Iteza no Anata wa by Uramoto Yuuko Secret (Himitsu) by Shimura Takako Magazine editor Nanase sees a poplar tree on the go. That fateful encounter, evokes the memory of a certain secret… Millennium Loneliness (Sennen no Kodoku) by Fujiwara Kaoru A man devotes himself to pray in church. Guide (Michishirube) by Tendou Kirin