Ghost Life is a short story recognized by the Shosetsu Gendai Newcomer Award. Suggested by its title, it can be read as a story about a spectral sense of living and a person who cannot fully find a place in ordinary reality.

Though alive, the character seems faintly ghostlike, marked by a lack of belonging.

On a Moonless Night is the short story with which Kagari Tachibana won the Shosetsu Gendai Newcomer Award. Under a title evoking darkness, it stands at the beginning of the author's career as a story shaped by incident and psychological shadow.

The darkness of a moonless night brings the shadows within the characters into view.