WINNER of Unification 2025 One of the Unification Creators' Picks SHORT LIST short works in Unification 2025 One of the HIGHLIGHT stories in week one of Unification 2025 FEATURED by The Reading Room on April 2024 FEATURED by Short Story reading list in Quick Reads - December 2024 Inspired by Your Lie In April Can a dead person leave an unsaid message to someone who is still living? With her diary entries, song lyrics, and poems left in her notebook after her passing, Mariel wishes for Nuel to read her unspoken feelings for him. Can someone who is alive communicate his feelings to a person who has passed away? Longing to express what has been lingering in his heart, Nuel hopes he can confess his love for Mariel, a love he has long felt for her, but is it already too late?

In a post nuclear war inhabited by deadly creatures, two teenage boys were forced to fight for their lives and lend each other the will to survive-to reach the delusional dreams they seek in this cruel kind of world they were born in. "Here I am his killing machine. I don't deserve to get tired. I can't afford to experience a normal life. And I have no right to have at least a single emotion. I hate this kind of life. I wish this world to be destroyed just how it was supposed to be."