James has everything he could ever want - loyal friends, a beautiful fiancée, and, most importantly, a stable future. He should be content with his life. But he's not, no matter how much he tries to convince himself otherwise. On the morning of his wedding day, a whimsical sylph appears before him to offer him a taste of the freedom he had never before attained.
Many an interesting thing washes up on the beach, brought to the land by the wayward waves of water and fate. Whether the sea brings in a shell, a piece of driftwood or a girl with lessons on how to truly live, it cannot be denied that much can be learned from these aquatic deliveries.
Like most teenagers, Halle likes good food, video games and ragging on their brother. Unlike most teenagers, Halle is also an Internet-famous restaurant critic. After another explosive review, they begrudgingly visit a nearby Chinese restaurant at the request of a commenter, ready to be disappointed. But all their expectations - and practically everything they know about food - are blown away when they meet an alluring waiter at the restaurant.
Magical or mundane, nobody is immune to the agonising curse of loneliness. It burns one from within, a persistent ache that does not leave until a companion is found.But nobody can remain lonely forever. Sooner or later, as long as one waits, they are sure to find somebody to spend the rest of time with. This is the story of two solitary souls, one born with magic in their blood and the other completely normal, who overcome their pain through meeting each other.
Vicente remembers the lights that shone within the city he was born in, and the darkness he and his family have been dragged through in his eighteen years of life. Having jumped from home to home the moment he was born, he prays, he hopes for a place he can settle down in, as bright and beautiful as his birthplace.This is the biography of a boy who cannot fit in, forced to take up the role of caretaker of his younger siblings, too good to be bad and too bad to be good - unremarkable, insignificant, malcontent with his malcontent. This is a telling of family, love, friendship, good food and home.
Of a girl who's always fine and her revelation that it's fine to not be fine.
On a walk with no particular direction, thinking about their life, which has no particular direction, Joy finds an injured crow on the sidewalk. It's of another species, sings a different song, but might just be the saving grace they need.
Oliver and his sister begin to hear eerie music playing from their neighbour's apartment, and they can see the silhouette of a ballerina dancing from through the windows - but no footsteps can be heard. Night after night of playing and dancing pass before they decide to figure out what's going on.
Astrid. One of the most skilled, yet most overlooked Pokémon trainers of the Kalos region. An Ace Trainer, yet one who we almost never see battle. What's her story? In Ace, I'll try to put my own take on her.