Kyouken Breeder

A series of standalone tales includes an art student challenging a difficult instructor, an office worker trying to understand a colleague's drunken desperation, two novelist roommates dealing with a messy living situation, a former sex worker and a sick assassin evading their pasts, a man dealing with an unpredictable presence in his life, a teacher navigating a relationship with a student conflicted over his future, and a doctor taking a terminally ill child on a seaside journey.