João Marcelo Santos

When she wakes up to the cries of a desperate baby, a baby she feels deep down she knows, she knows that from then on her life will not be the same - as well as her sanity. [This story is an unofficial tale from the Bird Box universe, created by Josh Malerman]

João Marcelo Santos

A set of chronicles of the ''Jikan Ryoko'' story, usually One-Shots, or short stories from a few chapters. These tales serve to present parallel stories with links to the main story, or stories that tell the backstory of some characters, or about an important past in the story. Generally, each tale promises to be small, with a few exceptions. You don't need to read the original story to understand most of the stories, but if you're interested, the link is in the disclaimer.

THE PATH OF THE CHAMPION Author: Lorenzo Oliveira At the age of 9, Kenta Nakamura left Japan and began a new life in Brazil. Years later, at 15, his troublesome behavior, his fights, and difficulties at school led his mother to make a decision: to send him back to Japan to live with his uncle. What Kenta did not imagine was that his uncle was hiding a past in the world of boxing. Upon discovering the Nakamura Boxing Gym, Kenta comes into contact with a completely new universe. Between rigorous training, experienced opponents, friendships, rivalries, and challenges, he begins a journey that will demand much more than physical strength. Confident, provocative, and extremely competitive, Kenta believes he can reach the top. But he will soon discover that talent and determination are not enough to become a champion. In the ring, every opponent will be a lesson. Every defeat will have a price. And every victory will bring him closer to discovering what kind of boxer he wants to be. His goal is to become champion. But the path to the top is only beginning. THE PATH OF THE CHAMPION — The path of a boy toward greatness.

In the year 3075, humanity has achieved extraordinary technological advances. Machines coexist with people, cities are dominated by gigantic corporations, and technology is capable of replacing almost any part of the human body. But not even a thousand years of progress were enough to build a better world. While the richest live surrounded by privileges, millions of people survive in a society marked by inequality, violence, and corruption. It is in this world that Nia lives, a domestic robot who works in the residence of an elderly businessman. Her existence is simple: clean, organize, and carry out the tasks for which she was programmed. At least it should be. In a city where everything has a price, a police officer tries to find his place within a corrupt system, while a woman connected to the criminal underworld does what is necessary to survive. Three distinct lives, in a society that seems to have forgotten the meaning of humanity. In a world where machines become increasingly human, what remains of humanity in people?

Petit Ange

The world has ended. There is no future left on the outside, nor humanity waiting to be rescued. What exists is a reality preserved by the will of a single person who keeps the memory of the world and everything that remains of humanity. The problem is that not everyone agrees that this existence should continue... Eine, a survivor of the catastrophe that destroyed human reality, dedicates her existence to ending the last traces of the people who were once at the center of these events. But, being unable to interfere directly in a dream that still continues, she must find hosts among the people who inhabit it. Her new attempt is Claire Williams. At nineteen, Claire has very ordinary concerns: university, the debts she took on to study, and the future she believes she is building. Now, however, she shares her own consciousness with a young man who knows a reality she cannot accept. As the boundaries between memory and existence begin to dissolve, those who walk between the two extremes will have to confront a question for which there may be no right answer: when the world has already ended, what does it mean to keep living?

Rafael CarnielliNuovo Autore

There is a kind of silence that weighs more than any war cry. It is the silence of the gap between the oaks across the frozen ground, the steam of a soup shared only with longing and the constant fear of waiting for someone who may never return. In Patavium, Aemilia became the lady of a home haunted by uncertainty. Torn between the relentless responsibility of governing the land and the intimate torment of not knowing her husband's fate, she refuses to succumb to despair. To protect the property and those who depend on it, Aemilia will have to find strength where only solitude remains, proving that dignity and love can be shields as sturdy as iron.