Partner is an R-18 Literary Award-winning story by Toko Masaki. It portrays two childhood friends in high school through bodily intimacy and an ease that sits slightly outside the usual frame of romance.

A short story about an easy, intimate bond that works precisely because the two have known each other since childhood.

And Then I Was at a Loss is Yayoi Watanabe's first venture into fiction. Through an age-gap relationship, it depicts the dislocation between body and mind and won the readers' prize of the R-18 Literary Award.

A prizewinning work that traces the mismatch between body and mind through eroticism and transgression.