Learning to ride and tame dragons comes easy to most students at Ansarivan Dragonar Academy - except for first-year student Ash Blake, who is known by his fellow classmates as the "number-one problem child." Poor Ash is the laughing stock at school because, despite his unfashionably large star-shaped brand that marks him as a future dragon master, he has nothing to show for it. His dragon has never appeared - until now, that is. One fateful day, Ash's dragon awakes in full glory, but appea...

Eunbyul's life is one long, awkward punchline. She's stuck in a dead-end job, broke, single, and clinging to the one thing she actually loves--her tiny apartment. But her peaceful little world flips upside down when a cranky pop idol accuses her of being a stalker after a bizarre rooftop mix-up.Trying to clear her name turns into a full-blown catastrophe. She runs into an old crush--now a famous webtoon artist. Then she loses her job, hits rock bottom, and finds her only hope of surviving ...

The students of Ansullivan Dragonar Academy are abuzz with excitement: the school's annual invitational training camp is coming up, and only the best and brightest will be chosen to attend. Ash Blake is stunned to find he's been selected - he may have unusual gifts, but his Steed, Eco, has a human body. How can a Dragonar who can't ride his dragon possibly participate? Yet the biggest surprise is not Ash's selection. When a girl named Lucca Sarlinen is chosen, speculation runs rampant. Luc...

In the capital city of Fontaine, at the mausoleum where the royal family's dragons are laid to rest, several tombs have been robbed. Among them, the remains of the dragon belonging to Sylvia's brother are missing! When Milgauss arrives in the city to attend a conference and masquerade ball, it portends dark things for Ash, his friends, and everyone around them.

Drawing off a wide assortment of literary and artistic influences, Ran Walker explores the extremely fine line between microfiction and narrative prose poetry using a 100-word framework that stretches the imagination, forcing the reader to consider whether prose poetry is really all that different from its sibling, microfiction.

Step into the Afroverse-a constellation of 100 microstories where Black futures, pasts, and presents collide in stunning bursts of imagination. In Fragments of the Afroverse, Ran Walker distills whole worlds into just 100 words each, weaving speculative fiction, surrealism, and cultural reflection into a tapestry of rhythm and possibility.From dreamlike scenarios to ancestral echoes, these compact narratives challenge boundaries and celebrate the richness of Black life acr...

Eunbyul Han thought it was the worst day of her life when a misunderstanding resulted in her neighbor--superstar Kang Bin--thinking she was a stalker. Little did she know, the nightmare had only just begun! Thanks to Kang's bodyguard being a dear childhood friend and Eunbyul desperately needing a job, she finds herself tutoring the brattiest student ever.That leaves her precious little time to reconnect with another person from her past, Choi Junghoon, who seems to want to take their frien...

Ash hasn't had much time to figure out the mystery of Eco's appearance. Ansullivan is under attack by a kind of dragon no one's ever seen before - one that smells like death and regenerates when injured. As if that's not enough for a young dragon rider to deal with, the student council is recruiting, and a tempestuous member of the royal family is about to pay Ansullivan a fateful visit.

Mona is the cutest girl in school, and she knows it. In fact, she's worked hard to make her high school debut succcessful. Buf no matter what she does, she can't seem to catch the eye of stone-cold stoic Medaka Kuroiwa—but she's not about to give up that easy. Medaka, on the other hand, has been raised at a temple and was told to never become close to women. Who will win in this heated battle of wills?

It is now evening, and everyone is having a good time with the post-festival event. Mona and Medaka sneak into a classroom together. With the two of them having a whole classroom to themselves in the evening, the mood is just perfect for them to get a bit closer to each other! Mona is so happy, she just can't help but spill out her true feelings for Medaka. Not to be outdone by Mona, Tomo later asks Medaka to go on a date with her.

The Ansullivan 500-Year Festival is well underway, but the festive air won't last for long. A parasitic black crystal has attached itself to Oscar's dragon, causing both rider and steed to go berserk--just in time for their showdown with Ash. The grand finale of Dragonar Academy is here at last!

Before the West: First Light on Unknown Lands is a deeply personal memoir that traces a journey through identity, displacement, and discovery.Through vivid storytelling, Hamid Ran reflects on life before arriving in the West, capturing moments shaped by culture, uncertainty, and resilience. This is not just a story of movement across borders, but an exploration of what it means to carry memory, history, and self across worlds that rarely understand one another.Written with ...