A collection of four stories: The Story of a Macaron-Loving Girl Who Lived a Thousand Years Somehow: A whimsical girl who loves macarons learns her best friend has ended up a thousand years in the future, so she lives a thousand years to meet her and watches the world change around her. She Can Talk To Concrete: A boy with a terminal illness doesn't tell his mother about it, and instead enjoys having no responsibilities. Then he meets a girl from middle school who's changed considerably since then, and shares with her the mysteries of cardboard and building secret bases. Paraporopurun Peroporoparapon: An alien finds he's in love with another alien, but knows that, her being royalty, he can never hope to compete with her thirty-five trillion fiancés… or can he? Said aliens have bizarre names, bizarre bodies, and bizarre practices, but are actually really cute. The Lying Cicada and the Blue Sky: A boy is visited one night by an unusual girl initially claiming to be a cicada. Eventually, she reveals her intention to "repay the favor" of him once saving her life. Source: vgperson's tumblr