When I was fifteen, the harvest that year was richer than in previous years. Old Shu even seemed to grow younger with so much ...

The happiness I clung to blinded me to her absence. Dim, flickering lights suffused the moment with a ghostly breeze, and I surrendered to ...

The music I had waited for all night finally played: her voice. Fireflies and lunar moths made their appearance, presents of the Mother herself, ...

Our troupe of younglings played and sang diligently as we crossed the towering wooden gates. The stone courtyard greeted everyone with icy facade, covered ...

Even though I continued talking with my parents as if nothing had happened, my mind was churning with thoughts, and my throat was aching ...

As the second song ended, the village exploded in cheers. The younglings were too busy catching their breaths, and there I stood, trapped under ...

“Shut up, you loud bunch of hungry monkeys!”  Elder Shu yelled at the top of his lungs, waving his cane in the air. Those ...

I finished my bath and hung the damp towel on the fence outside, a signal I was ready for the evening’s preparations. A few ...

In ages long forgotten, chaos loomed before the Great Cataclysm. Machines, wielded in human hands, bound society with invisible chains. Through these devices, a ...

In 1859, Darwin introduced his theory of human evolution. He described “survival of the fittest” as the idea that those most adapted to their ...