Peace and Other Stories contains scripts for the graphic novel Peace, seven short stories, and the graphic novel When the Koi Speaks -- all starring Irene, a poor Greek girl merged with Buddhist nothingness to become a fearsome killer. As a girl, Irene begged on the streets for food. When she married a rich Japanese businessman, she thought her life complete. But when she and her life are brutalized, her refusal to surrender begins a journey that will lead her to Japan and to become an assassin so ruthless that gangsters the world over speak of her in whispers.