Lee Seoyun had scars. Perhaps she had been saved from physical scars, but they were visible enough to her. Thick reminders stood out in her mind that made words like worthless, not good enough, not grateful enough, unloveable, feel like a second skin. She didn't

Kim Haru knows loss. She knows what it means to miss someone, to find out what isolation looks like in the flesh. These things, she expects them and she patiently waits for the day she may wake up and greet them as griefs of the past.

He is a nobody. He grew up on the streets, forging for shelter and taking what jobs he could to care for his two younger sisters and mother. He has never known a safe home or a meal big enough to cease the pains in his stomach. She is the single child of Sungmin and Mi

ICE QUEEN'S V

Short Fiction  by syd M