Korean Short

What do you do when your new stepmother is a lying psychopath, your best friend is out of the country, and the father who once loved you more than life itself kicks you out of the house at the beginning of Thanksgiving break? Well, you probably cry for a few hours and then crash at the first place that offers you a sofa. And if you’re me, that place happens to be a house of seven boys. Don’t get me wrong, I’m really glad I don’t have to sleep in my car until Alya gets back from her cruise. But staying with half a dozen strangers and some guy I once had a math class with was not how ...

This book is about one of my childhood friends; it is a tribute to him.

It's just supposed to be for one night--EnJOY, the biggest K-Pop band in the world, is playing in New York and they need a make-up artist STAT. Like any good YouTuber, I need juicy content, and Desiree, the best assistant in the world, figures this will drag me out of the emotional slump I've been stuck in. But when Taemin and I meet, sparks fly... I don't want to jeopardize my career, so how can I say yes? And how could anyone in their right mind say no? This short erotic story features consenting adults doing the following: dubcon with D/s play, some S/M, front and back penetration with ...

In crisp, unembellished prose, Eunyoung Choi paints intimate portraits of the lives of young women in South Korea, balancing the personal with the political. In the title story, a fraught friendship between an exchange student and her host sister follows them from adolescence to adulthood. In "A Song from Afar", a young woman grapples with the death of her lover, traveling to Russia to search for information about the deceased. In "Secret", the parents of a teacher killed in the Sewol ferry sinking hide the news of her death from her grandmother.

A woman meets her next-door neighbor and loans her a spatula, then starts suffering horrific gaps in her memory. A man, feeling jilted by an unrequited love, becomes obsessed with sorting through his neighbors' garbage in the belief that it will teach him how to better relate to people. A landlord decides to raise the rent, and his tenants hatch a plan to kill him at a team-building retreat. In 10 captivating, unnerving stories, Flowers of Mold presents a range of ordinary individuals who have found themselves left behind by an increasingly urbanized and fragmented world.

In the Garden of Long Shadows is a short fiction collection of two dozen works by literary master storyteller Thomas F. Sheehan. Drawing on his favorite themes of love and war and deep personal reflection, Sheehan’s writing resounds in singing the praises of man.

Offensive lineman, Keith Davis, has always had a crush on his pre-med study group partner, Paris Kim, but he never knew how to translate those feelings. After gaining confidence from his friend and pre-med study group partner, Jasmine Phillips, he decides to ask Paris out on a date. His first date with Paris goes well, but Keith is concerned about their future. It wasn’t until their study date that Keith learns Paris’ true feelings for him. A Study Date is a short story spin off of the book series A VBU Pirates Football Romance. It is for mature readers only.

His tour is over, but the war rages on for Dickie, one of the forever-haunted veterans who gave up his soul during the Forgotten War. Here is a glimpse of his story, of the battleground he can never leave. Only death can conclude his final objective: closure, and peace. Join him on his road, the Korean Road, as he battles horrors he carries and those that he meets along the way.

소설집의 처음을 여는 「그들을 정원에 남겨두었다」에서 의사인 '나'는 소설가이기도 하다. 이시진은 내가 담당하고 있는 식물인간 상태의 환자인데, 그는 과거에 커밍아웃하면서 부인과 딸을 떠났었다. 10여 년을 함께한 그의 동성 연인은 병원에 찾아왔지만 어떤 관계도 인정받지 못한 채, 이시진의 가족들에게 쫓겨나야 했다. 한편 나의 대학 동기인 수연은 그 상황을 텍스트로 풀어내며 생활동반자법 제정이라는 공론을 이끌어내려 하지만, 그 과정에서 사실을 과장하고 각색한다. 나는 수연에게 전화를 걸어 그 글은 픽션이 아니라고, 쓰기 전에는 최소한 동의는 구했어야 했다고 비판하지만, 되레 수연이 되받아친다.

From the very first moment she set foot in South Korea, Barbara Zitwer, literary agent to some of the most celebrated, prize-winning Korean authors, fell head-over-heels in love, discovering there a renewed sense of happiness and energy. In this witty, charming book, Zitwer shares all that she has learnt about this fascinating country: a vibrant, global powerhouse of culture and industry with an enduring devotion to the ancient philosophies of han, heung and jeong (resilience, joy and the art of giving).

Former felon, Kelly Rhee works as a confidential informant with LAPD officer Jason Smith. The two had a romantic past, but Jason ended things early as he was afraid of being judged by his fellow officers for dating a felon. Months later, Kelly gives Jason a tip about a local drug deal in K-town. Afraid of gang blow back, Jason promises to Kelly that he would protect her. When the gang finds out that Kelly ratted, Jason saves her, only realizing his true love for her. To Protect and Serve an interracial AWBM short romance. It is for mature readers only.

"The Little Match Girl" is a short story by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen. It was first published in 1845. We use the public domain English text from A Christmas Greeting: A Series of Stories by H. C. Andersen in Project Gutenberg.

Why couldn’t Alan be cool like people in the ‘70s? After breaking up with his girlfriend Sheila and unsatisfyingly teaching English in South Korea, he befriends an alien grad student, Coff, who lets him time-travel to swingin’ 1967 England to live out his retro-boogie fantasy. But now 70 years old in Edmonton, Canada, Alan takes a chance in meeting Sheila again to confess his past. That causes problems in time that Coff will need more than Fleetwood Mac and fuzzy dice to fix.

Gary Pak has emerged as one of the most important Asian Hawaiian writers of our time. In this new collection, Pak expertly crafts a memorable cast of Hawai'i's Korean Americans, Chinese Americans, Japanese Americans, and Native Hawaiians, amplifying our cross-cultural understanding of Hawaiian life today.

"A woman named Lola Montez was born in Ireland in 1821. She moved to Paris, France in the 1840s; she wanted to be a dancer, but it didn’t work out. So she addressed a man named Alexandre Dujarrier, who owned the newspaper company with the highest circulation then."

40년만의 국내 출간으로 대한민국을 뜨겁게 달궜던 『체체파리의 비법』에 이은 제임스 팁트리 주니어의 두 번째 소설집. 로커스상과 성운상 등을 수상한 작가의 대표작 '마지막으로 할 만한 멋진 일'을 비롯 11편의 국내 처음 소개작 수록.

'모든 게 다른 나라' 시즌 1의 마지막화인 아홉 번째 이야기에서는 야아의 개 칭구가 요요와 동물친구들에게 시냇물 채우는 법을 알려줍니다. 친구들은 힘을 합해서 마법을 되돌릴 방법을 찾아낼 뿐만 아니라, 시냇물 양쪽 두 나라 사이에 다리를 놓는 법도 알게 돼요.

저자: 피오나 렘프트 (Fiona Rempt) 1973년에 헤이그에서 태어난 네덜란드 어린이책 작가입니다. 작품이 8개국 이상에서 출판된 적이 있어요. 네덜란드 스토리텔과 손잡고 전세계 어린이들을 위해 '모든 게 다른 나라' 시리즈를 쓰고 있어요.

2004년 영화진흥공사 재외동포 장편 시나리오 부문에 「썸머레인」이 당선되면서 작품 활동을 시작한 작가 황희는 휴먼 스릴러라는 한 가지 장르만으로 지금까지 9편 이상의 중단편 소설과 시나리오를 집필했다. 어떤 소설이라도 결국은 인간에 의한, 인간을 위한, 인간이 주제인 그녀의 작품 성격은 여러 단편들을 소개하면서 구체화 되어간다. 좀비로 변하고 나서 인간으로서의 자유를 비로소 느끼는 주인공이 등장하는 좀비 소설 「잿빛 도시를 걷다」, 팀 버튼의 우울하고 기괴한 애니메이션에 등장할 법한 외모, 예측 불가능한 성격의 중년 여자 「이웃 주민 방숙자」 등 그녀는 영화나 소설에서 좀처럼 찾아 볼 수 없는 독특한 개성을 지닌 캐릭터들을 창조해 낸다.

두려움, 회피, 슬픔 등 음식으로 나쁜 기억을 치유할 순 없을까? 심리적 편식은 '나쁜 습관'이 아닌, '아픈 기억'이라는 말이 있다. 아픈 몸을 의사가 치료하듯 아픈 기억은 요리사가 치료해줄 수 있지 않을까 하는 생각에서 이 이야기는 시작된다.

SF 소설가 곽재식의 소설은 당연히 SF적인 내용을 담고 있습니다. 이 단편집만 해도 초공간 도약 항법도 나오고, 인공지능도 몇 가지 나오고, 외계인과의 퍼스트 컨택트도 나옵니다.