All the Monsters Are Hopeless Romantics

[Coming Soon: After Losing My Memory, I Gained “Four Boyfriends”] Blurb at the very end

① My Paper-Doll Boyfriend

On a lovely day off, you decide to spend some time visiting an art museum.

By chance, a many-eyed monster with tentacles pulls you into a world inside a painting, and you begin an adventure within the canvas.

The monster treats you well, granting almost every request you make. It can even tailor its appearance to your tastes.

You escape successfully and return to the real world.

But when you get home, you are surprised to find that another painting has quietly appeared there.

② My Online Lover Is a Merman

You have an online boyfriend.

He has a wonderful voice and a handsome face, and he's generous, always sending you all kinds of gifts. But he keeps turning down your invitations to meet.

Your friends all agree that you've fallen for a jerk who's playing with your feelings.

You start to have doubts too, so you decide to go meet him in secret.

Only after seeing your boyfriend with your own eyes do you finally understand why he had always refused to meet.

He was a merman.

③ Love and Robots

You spent a fortune on a domestic robot.

The robot is more useful than you could ever have imagined.

It takes care of every household chore and keeps your home in perfect order. It looks after you when you're sick, and even comes to comfort you, hug you, and chat with you when you're heartbroken.

You chalk it all up to advanced technology, thinking even AI has evolved to be remarkably empathetic. You never realize that it has not only gained self-awareness, but has also fallen deeply in love with you.

Only when your ex comes over to get back together and you find yourself completely unable to open the door do you realize that something might be wrong...

④ My Husband Is a Tentacle Monster

You met your current husband at your very first matchmaking date.

He's tall and handsome, has a respectable job, and is gentle by nature. Most importantly, your families are a good match and know each other well, so your parents are very pleased with him.

Your husband is wonderful in every way, except for a lot of strange habits...

For example, he's extremely picky and never eats leafy greens.

He also takes an incredibly long time to shower, often spending two hours in the bathroom.

Strangest of all, he always blindfolds you with a black cloth when you have sex.

You can put up with all of that. The one thing you can't accept is that only six months into your marriage, he's already working late all the time, coming home at night smelling of unfamiliar perfume.

You suspect he's “cheating” on you, so you storm off to catch him in the act.

Fortunately, your husband hasn't been unfaithful.

Unfortunately, he really has been sneaking food: not only has he eaten a whole truckload of raw fish by himself, but his eating organs turn out to be dozens of giant tentacles...

⑤ Mr. Spider Comes to Repay a Favor

You've never dated anyone, and you're very curious about what your future partner might be like.

So you find a tarot reader and ask her to tell you what your destined partner will look like.

You're a sucker for good looks and are sure your true love will be an unparalleled hunk.

Unfortunately, you don't get what you hoped for.

The tarot reader tells you that your destined partner will have a very distinctive appearance: not only will he have a huge belly, he'll also have furry limbs.

You block the tarot reader.

Please. If your future partner looks like that, you'd rather stay single forever.

A few days later, you lose your job and decide to go back to your hometown and lie flat for a while.

But the moment you open the door to your old home, you see a monster with a handsome man's upper body and a spider's lower half.

⑥ My Childhood Friend Is a Werewolf

You have a childhood friend, and you know one of his secrets.

Every full moon, he transforms into a werewolf.

Dense fur grows across his skin, his fingers become sharp claws, and a fluffy wolf tail even appears behind him out of nowhere.

You used to be inseparable, the best of friends. But at some point, you noticed that he was keeping his distance and treating you especially badly.

After putting up with it for a long time, you finally can't take it anymore and try to talk things through with him. But you never imagined the reason he was avoiding you was...

Whenever he gets close to you, he falls uncontrollably into heat.

Reading Guide:

① A 1v1, nonhuman romance anthology, told in the second person

② The stories are entirely unrelated, so feel free to pick whichever ones interest you

③ There's no guarantee that every story in the blurb will be written. The list may grow or shrink depending on inspiration

Blurb for After Losing My Memory, I Gained “Four Boyfriends”:

As the least noticeable beta in an ABO world, I always thought I'd never get caught up in a romantic mess.

Then I lost my memory in a car accident and discovered that I had “four boyfriends” at the same time?!

They were childhood friends who had never gotten along, business rivals, an ex I'd broken up with years ago, and even my ex's best friend...

Well, well, I'm really something. A beta can be a player too, and I don't even repeat myself.

To keep them from finding out I was “dating four people at once,” I agonized over juggling all the men.

It was a long time before my memories finally came back, and I learned...

Screw that. Before I lost my memory, I didn't have a boyfriend at all!

Theme: Love and freedom