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They’d never exchanged words beyond sorry, my son likes to talk and it’s okay, I do too, but then Hot Single Dad had given him a smile – all big teeth and crinkled eyes – and that was enough for him to become a regular cast member in Jake’s fantasies.
It wasn’t purely carnal desire, though. Jake genuinely felt an urge to get to know him – both of them, truthfully. Riki seems like a sweet kid, and his father seems nice, and he’d met so few people since he moved back to the city. Jake often finds himself wondering if he should call his grandmother for her banana bread recipe and knock on their door with a fresh batch in hand and see if they were interested in getting to know him, too.
He’s pretty sure there’s black mold in his walls – that’s what he tells himself to excuse the level of delusion he’s reached. He’s having black mold poisoning induced psychosis, but it’s fine, everything is fine.
Or, where Jake gets a glimpse of the kind of family he'd always wished for, and wonders if maybe, just maybe, they'd been wishing for him, too.
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- Part 1 of kintsugi
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08 May 2024
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In the marked silence after, Jihoon struggles to think of another way to pick the conversation up.
He has a list of open-ended questions he usually likes to start with, to get the ball rolling again, but he’s got this awful feeling they’re just going to be met with hostile silence. He doesn’t usually subscribe to the Good Will Hunting methodology of waiting it out, but if a prisoner doesn’t want to talk, he won’t make him.
Can’t—is probably the more accurate word, because he wasn’t born yesterday, he watches the news, he knows; nobody can make Choi Seungcheol do anything he doesn’t—
“Hey Doc, wanna hear a joke?”
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07 Apr 2024
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“--if you agree to go on a date with me, my friends will let me leave, and I just want to go to the arcade because I have 600,000 tickets, and my friend said he’ll give me his tickets, and I’m so close to winning the lifesize Charmander, and this is tragically important to me, so if you just say yes and give me your number as proof a-and then you let me buy you dinner or something once, I will do almost anything.”
“Skate from one side of this straightaway to the other, and I’ll say yes.”
It’s the summer after Jongho’s junior year of college. The subway tunnels are slick with a combination of condensated sweat, spilled Starbucks, and mysterious tunnel sludge. He gets dared to ask Yeosang out. Things cascade from there.
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04 Jul 2023
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And so it comes to pass that Jeong Yunho, 24, oldest son and least employed relative, inherits Lady Trinkette’s Emporium of Antiques and Curiosities.
Joy.
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03 Jul 2023
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A murder victim beneath Wonhyo Bridge, seemingly random break-ins at some of Yongsan's wealthiest homes, and a mysterious symbol. Detective Kim Hongjoong is going to have to unravel the mystery of what connects them while dealing with the limitations of disciplinary probation (for something he didn't do or support or encourage, thanks very much) and a new partner, who may or may not be a living, breathing polygraph and can also see ghosts.
Or something along those lines anyway. Hongjoong hadn't honestly been paying attention at the time.
In hindsight, he should have.
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28 May 2023