Strange Visitors' Register is a linked story collection by Takehiro Irokawa, depicting odd people and memories that appear in the gaps of everyday life. Postwar disorder, outlaw sensibility, and uncanny encounters form the author's singular world.

From cracks in everyday life, strange and unforgettable visitors appear.

Bed in the Grass is a collection by Yuko Tsushima that depicts women's friendship, attachment to a former lover, and the dark movement of sex and love through intense bodily sensation. The image of deep blue grass leads the reader into a marshland of loneliness and desire.

Within the swell of grass, women's loneliness and desire begin to crack.