One story,
many crossings

Essay-Gaze · Scented Manuscript · Reality Slippage

On the Stairs · Dans l’escalier

A woman gathers gestures, smells, gazes, and subtle shifts of power under the name of “essays.” As her language turns other bodies into a manuscript, reality and fantasy blur into a dangerous record of self-interpretation.

Voice Theft · Biometric Identity · Reclaimed Testimony

The Stolen Voice · La voix volée

When a voice can be copied, identity becomes negotiable. This is a testimony spoken after speech has been taken.

Olfactory Evidence · Bodily Archive · Unspoken Politics

The Politics of the Unspoken Body · La politique du corps non dit

The body records what language refuses to say. Smell becomes evidence before memory can defend itself.

Embodied Memory · Destinationless Passage · Recursive Perception

A Place with No Reason · Un lieu sans raison

Movement is often imagined as escape, but what presses closer here is not distance—it is memory. Departure begins not with hope, but with the sustained exhaustion of remaining.

Bodily Vanishing · Fragmented Self · Impossible Regeneration

Regeneration, Scattered Fragments · Régénération, fragments dispersés

A taxi driver’s private hallucination becomes a public fact only when others begin to witness its bodily consequences. Seedpods, scattered fragments, vanished hair, and a black maw of light turn ordinary Korean urban space into a study of disappearance and impossible regeneration.

Temple Room · Vanishing Frame · Geometry of Grief

Points, Lines, and Light · Points, lignes et lumière

Beginning in a room at a Buddhist temple after the death of a mother, this short story treats disappearance as a structural condition. Point, line, color, and frame become a vocabulary for the body, form, and the slow dissolution of space.

Testimony · Fragmented Memory · The Body as Archive

The Testifying Tree · L’Arbre qui témoigne

A short story in which language becomes both rupture and evidence, and the body holds what history attempts to erase. Across Korean, English, and French, its fragmented narration asks what it means to witness—and to survive as an archive.

Impossible Reservoir · Serpentine Desire · Descent into Dissolution

In Cold Water · Dans l’eau froide

A woman returns to a familiar temple, only to find an impossible reservoir waiting where the well should be. Drawn by cold water and a seductive snake, she descends toward the place where body, desire, and disappearance begin to merge.

Hallucinatory Realism · Algorithmic Anxiety · Urban Solitude

That One Crumpled Crease

After seeing a snake no one else can see, a convenience-store worker’s ordinary world folds between hallucination and evidence. Screens, coins, banknotes, and recommendation algorithms turn the objects of daily labor into an intimate machinery of paranoia.

Pentagonal Order · Manufactured Belief · Ritual Recruitment

The ‘Building’ People

Inside a pentagonal-pyramid building raised on empty ground, belonging is engineered through recruitment and strategic lies. The institution seeks not merely to gather bodies, but to standardize conviction, desire, and fear.

Torsal Gaze · Gesture Failure · Observer Collapse

Torsos

A man who cannot understand the gestures of others becomes trapped between seeing and being seen. This story is a quiet, unsettling exploration of voyeurism, fragmented bodies, and the collapse of the boundary between observer and object.

Bottle Archive · Marital Surveillance · Inherited Compulsion

Sarah, Abraham

Beneath the outward form of a marriage story, possession and surveillance disguised as love erode a woman’s personhood. A cold, uncanny language of objects reveals the violence latent beneath the safe surfaces of family and daily life.

Encoded Absence · Memory Loop · Residual Empathy

The Disappearance of Patrick

Memory persists even when meaning collapses. Through an artificial-intelligence narrator designed to remember, this story asks whether a presence that survives as data and affect can ever be called entirely absent.

Assisted Departure · Maternal Body · Duty’s Return

Sehee Does Not Make It to Switzerland

A woman prepares to leave for Switzerland not as a traveler, but to exercise the last decision she believes remains hers. At the threshold of departure, caregiving, obligation, and her aging mother’s body pull her back into the life she meant to end on her own terms.

Elective Myth · Ritual Power · Survival by Silence

Alpyeong’s Choice · Le choix d’Alpyeong

A king is not elected. Amid the silence of those who survive, the outcome has already been decided. This story does not simply rewrite a founding myth; it follows power, survival, and childbirth to the point where they become a single politics.

Flooded Margin · Refused Shelter · Ruins of Survival

Entrance and Exit —Walking in the Rain— · Entrée et sortie

On the outskirts of a city under torrential rain, a woman wanders through abandoned buildings and streets. Her journey reveals the depths of loss and survival—and a memory that refuses to disappear—as she passes through the ruins where entrance and exit have become indistinguishable.

Streamside Walk · Submerged Memory · Quiet Survival

Green Path, Waterway

A short story of urban walking, memory, loss, and survival along Hongje Stream. Water, painting, and literature form a quiet passage through the city—where moving forward may also mean learning how to remain.

Weathered Faces · Evidentiary Gaze · Conditional Speech

The Courtroom’s Weathered Faces

Judgment begins long before testimony is spoken. In this courtroom, perception itself becomes evidence.

Media Spectacle · Gendered Commodity · Financialized Death

The Woman’s Red Manicure

A murdered home-shopping host becomes an incident file, a rumor, a stock-market issue, and finally an index of volatility. Violence does not end with the event itself; it is processed through media language, consumer logic, and institutional speech.

Luxury Enclosure · Incendiary Appeal · Approaching Death

The Old Man, the Separated World

In a luxurious retirement community, a woman fears not only approaching death but also her growing distance from her husband and daughter. She sets fire to the library as a final provocation—then waits for them even after she is transferred to a psychiatric hospital.

Projected Grief · Fourfold Perspective · Failed Rescue

The Fourth Gaze, Beatrice

Four women recognize one another’s faces yet know almost nothing of one another’s lives. When one woman cries through the night, the other three answer with projection and conjecture rather than aid—until an indistinct fire engulfs their homes and shops.