Megumi Kashuahara: Stories

At five, Princess Kim So Yeon escaped assassination with nothing but a farm girl's promise to keep her safe. At thirteen, she returns — changed, hardened, and ready. But the enemies who drove her out still lurk behind palace smiles. Her only weapon? Jo Soo. A farmer's daughter who can't be bought, fooled, or intimidated. Crown Prince Yi Joon has waited eight summers. So has the danger. The oath was made in a wildflower field. Now it must be kept in a court that wants her dead.

In the rubble of Fallujah, Navy corpsman Gabriella Stoica is left for dead — six wounds, two rounds, and one unconscious officer whose life depends entirely on her. Through a night that should have killed her, she holds the line alone. What keeps her breathing isn't training or luck. It's four words her father wrote in a hospital bed in Germany, fourteen years before she was born. One breath at a time.

Serena Li is eighteen years old and dying. Glioblastoma, stage four. Six months. This is the gut-wrenching, heart-breaking story of one sister counting the cost — and paying it — to give her dying sibling the unconditional intimate love she desperately longs for before the end comes. Some gifts cost everything you have to give… And even more.

When Private First Class Kirsti Duncan arrives at Forward Operating Base Vanguard, the men give her a broken hut, a quiet corner, and two weeks before she cracks. They are wrong about all of it. On her first full day, she spots what every drone and every sergeant missed — and when the attack comes before dawn, she makes a choice that will cost her everything except her life. A story about what it means to hold the line when no one believes you're capable of holding anything at all.

Fourteen-year-old Zoey was standing in her bedroom doorway, wearing nothing but those ridiculous Tweedy slippers. Her left hand was raised above her head, propped against the door jamb, and from that hand, a single strand of 3/8-inch sisal rope hung in spirals to the floor. “Come on,” she said. “Tie me up.”

A story in the The Supergirls Universe Universe
Twelve-year-old Gabriella Vasquez sees what others miss — every crack, every exit, every space that tells a story. When families in her Little Havana neighborhood begin disappearing without goodbye, she opens a notebook. What she builds from a scuff mark on a wall and a missing window plant will expose a billion-dollar corporation erasing Latino communities across America. She doesn't fight with strength. She fights with clarity. And she doesn't look away.

Sometimes, a moment of arrogance can reveal a truth no one saw coming. This was true for the school district of Oak Ridge Elementary school at a parent/Teachers meeting over a new controversial children's martial arts class

A Red Ribbon Universe Story
She was nine years old, poor, and hungry herself. He was ten, dying slowly outside her school fence. She gave him her only meal anyway. Every day. For six months. He made her a promise the day he left. Twenty-two years later, he kept it. A story about what happens when one child with nothing chooses to see another child with less — and changes the world.

A Japanese Samurai torn from a 13th-century sea battle by a typhoon-born time portal washes ashore in Arthurian Britain. Sworn to Arthur's Round Table, Tetsuya Nagai proves himself in blood and honor — felling an oathbreaking knight, surviving betrayal from the king's own brother, and cutting down the bastard son and sorceress who threaten Camelot's throne. His reward: Elaine's fierce heart, and a peace bought with a stranger's unbreakable code of honor.

When Captain Sira Velryth raided a human research station, she didn't expect to crash-land on a quarantine world with her hostage as her only chance of survival. Dr. Derek Ashton didn't expect to save the life of the woman who kidnapped him. Stranded on a planet engineered to kill, captor and captive must trust each other or die alone. What begins as necessity becomes something neither planned for — and a secret buried in the jungle that will shake an empire.