Who are Ethan and Yuri , the leading characters in Ian Willey‘s collection of prose poems and microfiction? In one life, they’re a couple of teenagers who meet on a roller coaster. In another, they’re ace fighter pilots on opposing sides of a battle for Earth. In yet another, they’re a pair of newborns in a nursery. Sometimes their circumstances are straightforward ; other times, they’re a bit surreal – or even very surreal. Sometimes things work out well for them ; sometimes, not quite. This collection presents the multiple incarnations of two souls whose bond to each other defies the limits of space and time.

A gorgeous and surreal collection that explores the many different lifetimes, landscapes, and timelines of two people meant to exist in each other’s lives.  Through a series of flashes, Ethan and Yuri are drawn together and apart on many adventures as they tackle living room sinkholes, buy bonsai volcanoes, nurture larval trains, and are tempted by big red buttons.  An inventive yet grounded read that explores the universal joys and calamities of love, possible histories, and potential futures.  – Jenny Wong, author of Light Chemical Sea

Ian Willey’s Ethan & Yuri Forever explores multiple versions of its titular couple‘s relationship across different ages, worlds, timelines, and lives, all depicted with dazzling imagination, gentle hilarity, and a wide-eyed sense of wonder, these small stories explore life’s strange possibilities as a couple. Readers who delight in the quirky, whimsical style of Richard Brautigan will find a similar pleasure here. – Ken Chau, chief editor, Unbroken

September 2026. 60 pages. 8.5 x 5.5 in / 140 x 216 mm. ISBN 978-4-907359-56-0 (paperback).

Click here to read an excerpt from Ethan & Yuri Forever.

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