Told from a rather unusual perspective, award-winning White Clouds is a beautiful and touching story about life, death and the heartening belief that we all will arrive at the same place when our time has come.
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From Kotonoha:
Hisae Iwaoka’s latest series features warm-hearted short stories about life and its little wonders. Sweet and delicate, they are like little cookies for a stressful mind.

Far in the future, humankind has evacuated the Earth in order to preserve it. Humans now reside in a gigantic structure that forms a ring around the Earth, thirty-five kilometers up in the sky. The society of the ring is highly stratified: the higher the floor, the greater the status. Mitsu, the lowly son of a window washer, has just graduated junior high. When his father disappears and is assumed dead, Mitsu must take on his father's occupation. As he struggles with the transition to working life, Mitsu's job treats him to an outsider's view into the various living-room dioramas of the Saturn Apartments.
(Source: Viz)

A girl falls into a coma and finds herself at an odd convenience store managed by a talking furry creature. In the land where dreams are made, on the brink of life and death, the girl watches and learns from the whimsical creatures she comes across.
(Source: MU)

Little bites of whimsical lives:
"Once Upon a Time"
See You Next Time
Imp in the Night
Sakura Antique Store
White Clouds
A beautiful and touching story about life, death and the heartening belief that we all will arrive at the same place when our time has come.
Molehill
The Land of Dreams
Grape Harvest
Let's Go Home
The Story of a Flower
The Road Where Flowers Bloom
Egg Water
Hoppie's Bear
One day, office worker Kurata encounters a strange girl in the city. The girl, who wears a bear “head mask” all the time, moonlights at her dad’s restaurant. Thus begins an unusual friendship between the lovelorn man and the mature girl…
"To a Certain Place"
(Source: Storm in Heaven & Kotonoha)Note: See this large list of short stories? It means White Clouds is only one chapter of many. Stop submitting chapter changes to only 1 chapter.

Short stories about cats.