Ideally, one should not make any contracts with the devil. But Seulgi thinks a no-strings-attached friendship with a demon should be an exception. (Or, where Irene is oddly impressed by the pathetic excuse of a homemade sandwich that Seulgi had planned on eating).

Solar is a theater actress who has an old soul. So the young woman just listens to opera and classical music. One of her co-workers convinces her to go to a tarot reading and the man tells her that the emperor's card has a different meaning in her case. And warns that her soulmate has been looking for her, which she considers stupid. Until she hears her voice...

  I don't like to talk about myself and I don't like being in the spotlight. Already 17, but still haven't learned the most important thing...how to love myself.     

2 roommates who barely know each other. They used to work a lot and just share the same space because the rent was cheap. Yongsun knew that Moonbyul was out of the closet and she avoided the younger one for some internalized homophobia. Pandemic hits them and they are forced to stay together in that small place, having no option but talk to each other. And they have beer. Lots of it.

  the air was stolen from jungkook’s lungs for a moment as from that glow emerged what jungkook could only describe as an ethereal being. that is, they looked almost like a regular boy, but every fibre of his body emitted a soft, silver light. it shone brightly even through the loose clothing adorning his body. even without the glow, the boy’s features were beautiful, as though they had been painstakingly hand sculpted to perfection by the Angels themselves. *

Short story about a girl having problems and would rather keep it to herself waiting for "the one" to come and comfort her.   ~~~   “But there is greater comfort in the substance of silence than in the answer to a question.” 

Now he was in his arms again, but this time he wasn't crying and he didn't need comfort.  It was only because Hakyeon would miss him. Taekwoon let himself go for only a moment, placing a soft kiss on his forehead.  He turned his head back against the pillow and held Hakyeon's hand against his chest before finally falling asle

      "Home is not a place... It's a feeling"                                                                          - Unknown

  "It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony." -Benjamin Britten   "At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self." -Brendan Francis His whole world gone