On August 31st, I contributed a 5,000-character short story titled “Raising Clouds” to the Hokkoku-Shimbun. The story is set five to eight years in the future in Hakui City, Ishikawa Prefecture. It follows “me” and my wife visiting Mount Hakusan, where we encounter a woman named Rokuka Suyama. She is dedicated to protecting the ever-shrinking … Continue reading Kiting Cloud →

Becoming Martians, translated by Toshiya Kamei and contributed to Multispecies Cities, has been nominated as an overseas short story for the second edition of the Million Fishing Castle Science Fiction Awards, organised by the Diaoyucheng Science Fiction Institute in Chongqing. Becoming Martians is a short film in the form of a message sent by a … Continue reading On the long list of Millions Fishing Castle SF Awards →