Toketara Shibonda. is a short story centered on evenings when the narrator and Yuri eat ice cream and watch dry ice smoke shrink away. Cool textures and vanishing vapor give delicate form to intimacy and loss.

Ice cream and the white smoke of dry ice softly surround the girls’ intimate hours.

Hana ni Kuramu is a short story in which admiration and fixation shift into feelings resembling love, unsettling the contours of reality. Within its floral imagery, desire appears both dazzling and dangerous.

Within the glare of flowers, admiration and fixation turn into something resembling love.