A collection headed by the winner of the 12th Sogen SF Short Story Award, gathering four stories set in summer: a summer spent on a fading island, one that grows brighter in memory, and a virtual summer that seems to go on forever. It holds the shimmer and pain of youth within each story.

A collection of stories that holds summer memories within the pain and shimmer of youth.

A science-fiction short story set in a near-future Taiwan where livestock farming has been banned after a pandemic. Told that her eldest brother has become a piglet, a younger sister returns home, hides and raises the pig, and joins people trying to hold the traditional Shenzhu festival without pigs.

News that an elder brother has become a pig sets a story of lost food culture in motion.