Megumi Kashuahara: Stories

The widow said she was too old. The scholar said he didn't care. The sister said she'd drink his bathwater and someone needed to do something about this immediately. She told herself thirty-eight was too old for plum blossoms and beginnings and a young scholar who chose Zhuangzi on purpose. She was wrong about all of it. Ink and Longing — a Joseon love story about philosophy, patience, and one spectacularly unfiltered sister who was right about everything from the beginning.

A funny SciFi Farce about what happens when you don't read the fine line on a contract to take in a roommate to improve intersteller relations for a years free rent and a new apartment

These files aren't for tourists, sweetheart." One sentence, and twenty-three of America's most elite operators laughed at the quiet woman in the doorway. They didn't know about Aleppo. They didn't know about the twenty-six missions that don't exist on paper. When the mission requires a 1,400-meter shot at night, in mountain winds, from a position nobody else can make — she says four words: "I'll take the shot." By the time she leaves FOB Echo, thirty-one men who mocked her will salute her at the

Ryker Jamison's mission becomes a nightmare when a wormhole throws his ship onto Kajirae-Gor—a world where uncollared women are hunted. To save his crew, he uses alien biotech collars creating permanent neural bonds. What begins as survival becomes Commander something deeper: four women discovering their truest selves through impossible choices. A story of trauma, healing, unconventional love, and family forged when surrender becomes freedom.

Before she died of cancer, Stephanie Barrett did one last thing for her husband Nathan—she found him a slave. She spent her final months training her young cousin Kiya to love him the way she had loved him, completely and without reservation. Kiya spent a year watching Nathan from a distance before walking into his life with a sealed letter and a truth she had been carrying for two years. "I am the slave she made for you”

A story in the Daughters if the Line Universe
In 1944, the B-29 has a reputation as a flying death trap, and the men assigned to fly it are refusing. The Army's answer: send in two women pilots to prove it can be done. Karen Whitfield doesn't fly to make a point—until the point needs making. When an engine catches fire mid-demonstration, she and her copilot have thirty seconds of procedure between them and disaster. What follows silences every man on the flight line—for exactly as long as it takes them to feel embarrassed about it.

In the spring of 1868, as the Shogunate collapses and three thousand women are expelled from Edo Castle, American silk trader Reggie Hemming spots a woman in blue and silver silk who stops him cold. Midori, the Shogun's former third concubine, is facing a world that has declared her obsolete. He follows her. She saves his life. He offers her a door, not a cage. What begins as survival becomes something neither of them planned for — a love built across two languages, two worlds, and one life

An American serviceman stationed in the Middle East yearning for a small Asian girl to love. A petite, slightly overweight Japanese girl with a terrible self-image longs for a guy to think she's pretty and worth loving. Both Christian, both pray. What's that the Bible says, "Ask and Ye shall receive?"

When a drunk driver destroys paralegal Ji-Eun Park's leg, attorney Brent Arnold refuses to walk away. Through agonizing recovery, brutal legal battles, and the fight to reclaim her independence, Ji-Eun discovers that rebuilding isn't about doing it alone—it's about finding someone who sees past the scars. A powerful story of resilience, justice, and the kind of love that stays when life gets hardest. Sometimes losing everything is just the beginning of finding what truly matters.

Shira Abrams was seven when her father began training her to kill. Forged in Israel's IDF and perfected in the U.S. Army, she becomes "Lilith"—one of the deadliest snipers in modern warfare. 96 confirmed kills across Iraq and Afghanistan. A Silver Star for heroism. A legend among Rangers. But after years of war, she faces her hardest mission: learning to be human again. Can a warrior choose peace when killing is all she knows?