The following contributions are excerpts of pieces by students in a creative writing course at a university in Nagoya, Japan. JAPANetwork would like to thank those students who have submitted their work to share with other students around the world.

• Am I a Girl? by Takuya Nishimura
• I Just, I Love You by Anonymous
• Beloved Baby by Natsuki Yasuda
• Father's Fight with AIDS by Anonymous
• Melted Secret by A. Yukiko
• Sad Truth by Anonymous
• What Can We Do? by Ayaka Fujiwara
• Life with LOVE and HIV by Yukina Kasahara
• Ray of Hope by Yu Ishii
• Journey by Yosuke Morieda
• Happiness and Hardness by Eriko Ogawa
• King of Wrestlers by Saki Yoshida
• Kind Lie by Tomomi Yamada
• Power of overcome by Ayumi Hayashi
• Love is by Mayumi Kanda
• Starting Life by Takaomi Miyamaru

• Gap by Inayoshi Junko
• Heroes by Tak
• Inside Jack by Second Norio
• I Want to Give Birth by Mira
• Voices by Mira
• Not Only You by Masahiro Takaki
• Riverside by Mizuki Suzuki
• Serendipitous Meeting by S.I.
• This Routine by Last Norio
• In the Season of Cherry Blossoms by Cherry
• Sarah and Billy's feeling with the five senses! by Fumi Inoue
• An AIDS Baby by Rika Masuda
• December 1 I Changed My LIve by Yuji Harata
• Blood Knows Everything by Yasuwo Yumoto
• A Twinkle Star by Nana