Megumi Kashuahara: Stories

In Joseon, Korea. In a starving county, slave-born medical woman So Hee meets a ragged beggar who asks too many questions. He is Crown Prince Lee Jun, sent in secret to expose a thieving magistrate. Together they break open the sealed granary, and he never forgets her. Summoned to the palace, she saves the Queen in childbirth, wins her freedom, and becomes his concubine. But she carries his first son, and in the palace, a child can be poisoned long before he draws breath.

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.

Me and Jimmy have been best buds since we were six. When I turned fourteen, everything changed... Note**Several codes have been withheld to protect the plot

Lt. Megan Meyers flies an AH-64 Apache into the fire over Karbala—and doesn't fly home. Shot down, her gunner killed beside her, she's taken prisoner and held sixteen days by men determined to break her. What they can't break is her refusal to disappear inside their cruelty. When a SEAL team finally breaches the door, rescue is only the beginning: healing, grief, and the hardest choice of her life—whether the woman who survived captivity can still be the pilot she was born to be.

She walked into the briefing room and nobody looked twice. That was exactly how she wanted it. Staff Sergeant Tala Nez, call sign Shadow Wolf, is a Marine Scout Sniper whose classified record hides a capability that has kept her alive through seven deployments. Attached to an elite Green Beret unit in Afghanistan, she is about to face her most dangerous mission yet — not from the enemy outside the wire, but from the traitor within it. Seventy-three confirmed kills. Zero missed shots. One ancient

Melissa Simpson came home from Fallujah without her legs and without much reason to hope. She bought Rika as a service device — practical, efficient, no complications. What she got was a woman who noticed the red in her hair, learned the shape of her pain, and followed her heart to wherever it lived inside her. What neither of them knew was that someone was watching. The Shape of Her Arms is a love story about two people who had no blueprint for what they were becoming — and filed the paperwork