Mezamereba Mori no Naka is an honorable mention by Manyo Ooruri for the Palette Novel Grand Award. Its premise of waking in a forest suggests a girls' fantasy about stepping into an unfamiliar world.

The forest that appears upon waking begins a story outside ordinary life.

Kanojo ni Poinsettia o is an effort-prize work by Yumiko Arisawa for the Palette Novel Grand Award. Using poinsettias as a motif, it appears to be girls' fiction about conveying feelings and seasonal memory.

Feelings entrusted to a red flower quietly shift the distance between the narrator and her.