Her Friend, Mr. Koi Fish
Eight-year-old Satsuki, lonely while her adoptive parents work long shifts, follows the sound of splashing into the woods and finds a talking koi fish eager to become her secret friend.
Works by Thomasu
Story Library
To Be Like
A man determined not to repeat his mother’s failures begins to notice the same dark presence that once followed her.
168
Two women spend a handful of numbered hours together, neither quite saying what the time is counting toward.
Caring You
A caring you follows a girl through the pieces of a life it can see but never touch.
Memoir of a Poet
A poet meets a stranger beside the river, and the words between them begin to take on a life of their own.
Razul
After running until he can go no farther, a man finds a talking bird willing to hear the story he has been trying to escape.
William’s Club of Beauties
A young girl’s experience in the underground world of “William’s Club of Beauties.”
The Mouse and the Macaw
A mouse reaches for the colors above the forest floor and wakes to find his small world changed.
Despondency
A girl searching through a world made unfamiliar by an ever-growing light finds that she may not be as alone as she believed.
The Lucids
Dreamers can create worlds, set their own rules, and enter the dreams of others—but dying in a dream means dying for real. At the Dream Building Academy, Yaris sets out to form the Lucids and compete for a World Building certificate awarded to only one group every thirty years.