When Love Comes Too Abruptly

A collected volume of Ima Ichiko's early yaoi one-shots and doujinshi, published from 1991 to 1995.

1. Two cousins who have drifted apart from close beginnings meet again, and find their relationship is still as complicated as before.
2. Sakaguchi Akira thinks he's found his "Uncle Mitsuo" he knew when he was a kid, but is taken aback to find him living in suspicious circumstances with a strange young girl.
3. Ryo is sleeping with his nephew-in-law Tomoteru, who at 27 is five years his elder. When Ryo's sister gives birth to Tomoteru's brother, new circumstances combine with years of unspoken words to produce a new status quo.
4. A folklorist becomes entangled in a local legend about a mermaid.