Chapter 0: There Is No Particular Reason I desperately ran after my dream. But some huge, transcendent being seemed to be laughing at me, saying, ‘It’s all in vain.’ I thought that on Christmas of the year I turned twenty-two, when I saw the health checkup results from the hospital. Santa Claus gave me a 3-month time bomb as a gi...
Chapter 0: There Is No Particular Reason I desperately ran after my dream. But some huge, transcendent being seemed to be laughing at me, saying, ‘It’s all in vain.’ I thought that on Christmas of the year I turned twenty-two, when I saw the health checkup results from the hospital. Santa Claus gave me a 3-month time bomb as a gift. Click, I unlock the front door and grab the cold handle. The rusty hinges creak as my frozen body enters the house. The sensor for the entrance light is broken and doesn’t work, so I fumble around to find the kitchen light switch. Click, I squint in the brightened house. “…I’m home.” There is no answer to my muttered words. The cold air, no less than outside, brushes my neck as if to answer instead. Even though I’m wearing three layers of 7,000 won long underwe
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