"I shouldn't talk to anyone. I'm evil. I shouldn't exist." What if those thoughts were right? "Everything and everyone in the world is conspiring to make sure I never get to do anything meaningful or interesting." What if you weren't paranoid? What if changing your life did mean the end of the world - literally? - Well, I'm evil, so it's not as if it'd be weird for me not to stop wanting it. - Ha ha. Good thing that'll never happen... right? : A modern fantasy world. An ancient mystical war. Love: 2D and... 3D? Human failures to connect, colliding unpredictably. A cosmic evil almost perfectly sealed away - in his room...

As the war begins and the threat of death becomes imminent, a young man transcends space and time in a search for personal meaning. As the mushroom cloud rises in the distance, the moment slows down to a freezing point and the young man is transported to an afterlife dimension where memories can be reviewed and relived. He seeks to understand the reasons behind the war, the meaning of his life, and the purpose of his looming death.

After his brother died, Hitoshi Watanabe quit his job and decided to walk to the hot spring waterfall at the end of the world. Originally published in Strange Horizons

Dreams come in many shapes. It all depends on what that particular dream is, but, the undeniable truth behind dreams is that they all share a common shape, that of which, is a marble. But, dreams don't usually take physical shapes, and normal humans would never be able to see them anyway. However, on the off chance that a dream does take physical shape, that can only mean that one thing has happened; a dream has been shattered. Those shattered dreams are left to wander the earth until they are picked up by the one who was created to collect shattered dreams.

In Tokyo, where the System siphons thought, emotions & memories, a literature student meets a strange psychic girl and they embark on an escape from mindless agents, dream worlds and reality itself, in a soul-searching journey for love, for identity and what it means to be human. But all that remains is a peculiar coffee shop order. The novel examines the human condition, perception, socio-political systems, capitalism and consumer culture, incorporating paranoiac conspiracy theories, surreal cosmic visions, circular symbolism and shifting parallel worlds, with profound discussions of coffee, art, literature and music. [Dystopia, Magical Realism, Philosophy, Literary] #1 Sci-Fi, Spiritual; #Wattys2014 Award Winner; Featured on Wattpad, IndieReader, @DIGonUSA "Struck me to the very core of my being." "Very interesting concept of reality... Thought provoking.." "I have been turned to a whole new way of thinking because of you." "Like a seven course meal full of spice and illumination... One does not listen to a classical piece to get to its ending. No. It is the ride, the moment by moment...a genuine Masamune among stories." "It was both personable and philosophical. A rare breed of good story and thought provoking ideas... A virtual standing ovation would not be enough to encapsulate the absolute awe I have of you." "It's not a regular thing to find a piece of work that oozes sophistication and embodies literature and art." "The world Takatsu has created opens to the deeper awareness of another, the draw of another." - Mary L Tabor, Wattpad author, essayist, professor "Offers acute, almost painful observations of the minutiae of life, if life took place in a Murakami snow-globe." - IndieReader Insiders "Vapoury style that seems to hover off world at times...haunting and strange (which is good)...You're on to something different, striking." - B.W. Powe, York University English Professor, award-winning author, poet, philosopher http://EspressoLove.tk