"To show you I'm serious, I'd do it a thousand more times only for you to admit it."

六白金星 by Sakunosuke Oda

This collection features a brilliant new translation of the Japanese master's stories, from the source for the movie Rashōmon to his later, more autobiographical writings. Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (1892-1927) is one of Japan's foremost stylists - a modernist master whose short stories are marked by highly original imagery, cynicism, beauty and wild humour. 'Rashōmon' and 'In a Bamboo Grove' inspired Kurosawa's magnificent film and depict a past in which morality is turned upside down, while tales such as 'The Nose', 'O-Gin' and 'Loyalty' paint a rich and imaginative picture of a medieval Japan peopled by Shoguns and priests, vagrants and peasants. And in later works such as 'Death Register', 'The Life of a Stupid Man' and 'Spinning Gears', Akutagawa drew from his own life to devastating effect, revealing his intense melancholy and terror of madness in exquisitely moving impressionistic stories.

Sherlock Holmes is a fictional consulting detective in London ~1880-1914 created by Scottish author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Holmes, master of disguise, reasoned logically to deduce clients' background from their first appearance. He used fingerprints, chemical analysis, and forensic science. The majority of the stories were first published in The Strand Magazine accumulated to four novels and fifty-six short stories set 1880-1914. All but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend and biographer, Dr John H. Watson; two are narrated by Holmes himself (The Blanched Soldier and The Lion's Mane) and two others are written in the third person (The Mazarin Stone and His Last Bow). In two stories (The Musgrave Ritual and The Gloria Scott), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories, while Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story. The first and fourth novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Valley of Fear, each include long omniscient narration of events unknown to Holmes or Watson

Ancient China is illustriously brought to life in these folk tales, legends, and stories of historical figures that routinely rank alongside such Japanese literary classics as "Rashomon" by Ryunosuke Akutagawa and Kokoro by Natsume Soseki. When they first appeared in Japanese periodicals in 1942 and 1943, they sparked a potentially rich and long career for author Atsushi Nakajima, who tragically died of asthma complicated by severe pneumonia shortly thereafter, but whose work has continued to grow in Japanese regard ever since. This collection marks the first time these works have been translated into English.

MY HERO ACADEMIA IZUKU MIDORIYA BOOK ONE OF ASAMI OKUMA SERIES Asami Okuma was one of two children born quirkless in the small hometown of Musutafu, Japan. Whilst her counterpart spends his days being tormented relentlessly by their childhood bully, Asami spends her time with her head down. Careful to avoid the trouble she knows ensues with the two boys. As Asami matures into her middle school years, she's eventually faced with the fact she must choose a path in life that doesn't involve a quirk. Initially, she's convinced herself she's content. That is, until a boy's fatal determination to prove not only himself but her; will lead her down a path she had never even begun to imagine. ***Contains Mature Content*** Sequel: Redamancy I do not own My Hero Academia or its characters, I am only responsible for the one that comes purely from my imagination.

Friends or not? Iwaizumi and Oikawa struggle as their relationship seem to be confusing them. A fanfiction of iwaoi ('･ω･') Completed on 16 October, 2020 *The arts are not owned by me*

A dead girl's diary leaves a boy in pieces. Translations: Czech- @SabikM

Summer Mason is a shy teenage girl, her life used to be pretty normal, all she did was study and help her mom. She thought her senior year it would be like all the others, until she met someone who would put it all upside down.

Oneshots of various characters from mythology and religion being gay and having sex. That's all. CHAPTER ONE [SERPENTES]: "Did you want to be immortal?" Neither of the women noticed when the distance between them disappeared, and they were breathing the same air. Only now did Eve observe Lilith's golden eyes. They weren't one of a snake or a cat. Those were the eyes of an angel. Of a God. "No. I wanted to die." Eve and Lilith meet in Eden and fuck. It's just lesbian smut with a lot of symbolism and blasphemy, enjoy. CHAPTER TWO [ARANEA]: "I could show you how desperate you are" the knife suddenly disappeared, substituted by a hand and this resulted in yet another whimper. "I could show you, that I'm not" Arachne looked the goddess straight in the eyes. Aranea gets too confident because of her talent. Athena puts her in place.