Cynical and disillusioned as only teenagers can be, Hotaro Oreki is determined to get through his time at […]
Swimming to the shorecurrent tugging at my limbs –the past struggling ©Copyright Brendan E Byrne 2020. All rights […]
PRESCRIPT: This is the text of an article I originally published in Engage.mail, the online journal of the […]
Junior high school student Kōsei Arima used to be a child prodigy on the piano, driven to an […]
Breaking the surface –emerging from your deep seaat last my heart breathes © Copyright Brendan E Byrne 2020. […]
The year is 1814, the place: Edo (Tokyo), the seat of the Tokugawa shogunate. A rather eccentric and […]
Bladerunner soundtrack –my heart no longer weepingtears in rain for you* *Tears in rain is a line in […]
In a world where “steampunk” technology dominates, “drakking ships” are dirigibles whose crews hunt the dragons that live […]
Three months after ten missiles strike Japan, causing widespread devastation but no casualties, Akira Takizawa wakes up outside […]
More deaths each year thanin Vietnam – one man’s lifethe spark igniting © Copyright Brendan E Byrne 2020. […]
