books
Dried Persimmons (Coming soon)
The Lonely Airport And Other Lonely Things (2020, 140 pages, humour/dystopian novel)
Somewhere in a world of quiet chaos is an airport that has gone unused for decades. Rusty planes, abandoned suitcases and unmanned checkout desks lay sprawled amongst the ruins of aviation.
As a result of a mysterious force fragmenting landmasses and turning them into islands, people have become cutoff and ostracised from one another. With no means of entertaining themselves, people's imaginations have become incredibly vivid, to the point where the real and the unreal have begun to merge.
Alone in Tokyo
(2013, 112 pages, semi-fictional travelogue)
What is it like to be alone in Tokyo? Is it possible to feel anything in Tokyo? Is it possible not to feel anything in Tokyo Is it possible to know which direction to go in Tokyo? What is Tokyo?
In this fictitious account of one man's pursuit of Tokyo, we see the city as it has never been seen before, filled with kappas, artistically inclined monsters, sentient mascots, and a million tiny versions of Hayao Miyazaki.
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(Socially Awkward Clouds)
(2014, 86 pages, spiritual)
Two socially awkward clouds trapped in a strange dimension try to find ways to pass time, which is difficult when the concept of time doesn't exist. Things such as bugs, shadow manuals, and mushrooms masquerading as armadillos all make an appearance.
Night of the Shadow Fruit
(2012, 90 pages, children's book)
Two desert-dwelling kid brothers spend most of their time playing in and around the Valley of Lost Furniture, a place where nothing ever grows. When the brothers come across a dark plant in the ground that only grows in their shadows and bears strange, black fruit, with something faintly glistening inside it like a distant star, they find themselves in the unlikely position of custodians of a mysterious entity.
A History of Vegetarian Bacon
(2013, 86 pages, surreal anti-novel)
When the Elders of Submaple—a group of mildly depressed wisemen clad in pink rabbit costumes and high-tops—found rashes of fossilised bacon in the wastelands of Submaple, they set out on a voyage to discover where it came from. Along the way they came across a civilisation of beetles whose economy revolved around saliva, an introspective diary-writing dinosaur, and a gigantic man in a gigantic sickbed on an island that remains forever on the horizon, called Horizon Island.
Farm Wars
(2012, 100 pages, short stories)
'Farm Wars' is a collection of stories pulled out of the bellybutton of time.
Someone said my other short story collection was too short, so I made a new book and put more stories in it to make it longer.
That's the story of my stories.