News Archive
08/11/2026
As evidenced by the fact that the ninth entry in this tale is over five thousand words long. But, like, can you blame me? With this many queer romances to play around with, of course I'm having fun!
01/11/2026
Morning glories, the flowers, are called 'Asagao' in Japanese, which directly translates to 'morning face'. Morning glories are often used to symbolize summer in general and summer vacation in particular in Japanese media.
And as long as you happen to know those things, the title of the eighth entry of this story makes perfect sense.
25/10/2026
Part seven of this little drama is centred around Ikeda Yuuki, a character that I actively dislike. But despite that fact, I still had so much fun writing this!
18/10/2026
This one mostly just came about as the result of me needing to match the story to the available options for a title. But in the end, it ended up being a fun way to further explore both the lighter and the darker aspects of the setting.
11/10/2026
With the addition of the fifth entry, I have moved the entire series of short stories into a single entry on the 'Longer Stories' page. Because at this point, I'm almost certain I'm going to keep going all the way to 'Sans Everything'.
This entry is focused on how the production affects different people who are at different stages in their life. Although obviously, given the setting, three of those 'stages' are the three years of high school...
04/10/2026
If I'm still stuck by next week, I'll move the individual stories into a single entry in the 'Longer Stories' section.
27/09/2026
As I wrote this week's story, it struck me that the way I'm giving titles to these stories would potentially allow me to write up to 28 entries in the series. And that thought didn't seem ridiculous to me. So...
Of course, if I actually end up going anywhere near that long, I'm probably going to move these things into the 'Longer Stories' section. We'll see how things shake out.
20/09/2026
I had WAY too much fun thinking about the setting of last week's short story, so now it's a series.
13/09/2026
A lot of the 'contemporary' stories I write could realistically be set in lots of different places with little alteration. But I honestly can't imagine this week's story being set anywhere other than Japan.
06/09/2026
Now I sleep.
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