Vague Predictions & Prophecies

Daisuke Shen's stories conjure forth a vast and often spectacular array of voices. Disparate as they might seem, their limitations often serve as entryways: insanity, anger, fear, shame can be understood by those who are willing to listen.

A couple employs a long-distance dating service that provides them exact clones of their partners, but then slowly begin losing their memories. Four boys with cruel intentions come across a field of statuesque women, unaware of the vengeance that awaits them. Paranoia leads a brilliant engineer into creating a language-processing machine that will tell her the truth of others' emotions.

Vague Predictions and Prophecies explores transformation, alienation, and identity, questioning the very nature of human connection. Through beautifully written prose, Shen invokes magical realism to create gigantic worlds packed inside deceptively small packages.