Wonderstruck in Tokyo, Cozy Fantasy Stories With A Hint of Adventure

Imagine a modern Tokyo where ancient myth, folklore, urban legends, and magic are real. This is the world of Wonderstruck in Tokyo. Now available on Amazon in paperback or ebook.

Wonderstruck in Tokyo

Nine lives. One city. Magic is just a subway stop away.

A delightful collection of original cozy and adventurous fantasy stories set in the modern metropolis of Tokyo.

In the high-tech, glass-and-steel metropolis of 21st-century Tokyo, a hidden world of wonder has co-existed since antiquity. While citizens go about their commutes, work at their jobs, and just live their lives, magic and the supernatural are ever-present in the background. Most people never see it, but it is unpredictable and awaiting.

This collection follows nine ordinary people whose lives are changed by encounters with the city’s supernatural side. Their stories range from gentle slice-of-life moments to thrilling encounters that are better avoided. 

• A woman finds herself in a magical world of legend.
• A convenience store that appears only when needed. 
• A delivery to an impossible alleyway shrine. 
• A lost cat who seeks mystical help.
• An anime character who leaves the screen.
• A shrine maiden who protects Tokyo's karmic balance.
• A cat which knows what book you need.
• A train ride to a station that shouldn’t exist. 

These stories and more explore how the boundaries between magic, myth, and reality lead to life-changing adventure.

Perfect for readers who enjoy cozy magic with a touch of danger.
For fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold, Spirited Away, cats, and contemporary mythic fantasy. 

Modern Tokyo is a huge, vibrant city where modernity and tradition mix. Towering skyscrapers border the forested grounds of ancient shrines and temples. Where anime and underground pop culture take root in neighbourhoods and parks. An orderly city, where people watch their manners and follow societal norms, but one can imagine magic working behind the scenes and doorways to wonder waiting to be opened. There are bright neon lights and LED screens over the city streets, narrow alleys with vending machines, convenience stores that open all night, and pedestrian tunnels and malls that run for miles below the ground. This is all fertile ground for the imagination. Wonderstruck uses these settings to bring another side of the city to life!

After my last novel, Kumotawa Confluence, an urban fantasy set in Japan, I realized I wanted to write more stories set here. In particular, I wanted to set stories in Tokyo, which I have loved and blogged about since my first visit. I hope the stories in this collection inspire wonder in you, as Tokyo and the pop culture that brought me here did. I think I had a smile a mile wide on my first visit to the city!

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