I Have the Right to Destroy Myself
Author: Young-Ha Kim
I don’t encourage murder. I have no interest in one person killing another. I only want to draw out morbid desires, imprisoned deep in the unconscious. This lust, once freed, starts growing. Their imaginations run free, and they soon discover their potential… They are waiting for someone like me.A spectral, nameless narrator haunts the lost and wounded of big-city Seoul,….Read More
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