Short Story
empty nester
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- Hyun Jin-geon
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- 3 episodes
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Introduction
My wife opens the door, looks for something, and mutters something under her breath.
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fire
It had been about a month since she got married, and Suni, who had only turned fifteen this year, felt that her breathing was becoming difficult even while she was half asleep. My chest feels tight, as if a large rock is pressing down on it. It might taste as cold as a rock, but when it was placed on Suni's fragile, pigeon-like chest, it felt as if it was damp, humid, and hot like a summer day during the rainy season, and had a weight of a thousand pounds added to it. He was panting like a dog. Then, my waist and buttocks were throbbing, sore, as if they were being torn apart, as if they were being torn apart, as if they were being torn apart, and I could not bear it. When something like an iron rod pushes her five organs to one side and reaches up to her chest, Suni opens her mouth and pulls herself up.
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