A short detective story by Banzanki Tanaka. Its sharp title suggests a work that treats a person moving toward death, or the inevitability of an incident, through dark humor and mystery.

A short story that plants a cold mystery like a nail driven into something already dying.

A short mystery by Seishi Niwa. It shows the qualities of a writer of the strange and uncanny, linking the scientific word 'evolution' to crime and twisted human psychology.

An unusual short story where the logic of evolution illuminates human strangeness.

A short detective story by Kojiro Goto. With the end of an affair in its title, it appears to depict how an entangled relationship leads to an incident or collapse.

A short mystery that traces what remains at the end of an affair.

An early short story by Shin Tendo. It portrays the uneasy, long-running bond between men who unexpectedly meet again on a commuter train, mixing lightness with disquiet.

The friendship of reunited old companions begins to roll in a strangely suspect direction.

A short detective story by Asako Kurusu. With the brief time after death in its title, it appears to concern time of death and unsettling details at a crime scene.

A short story that searches the shape of a case through unease left at a recent death scene.