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    A psychological thriller of madness, manipulation, and the slow unraveling of truth.

    When a well-known, beloved family is found slaughtered in their home, the only suspect is a 27-year-old man discovered at the scene, blood-soaked, shaking, and whispering things no one could understand. Park Seonghwa is quickly declared unstable and confined to a secure psychiatric facility for observation. He claims he didn’t kill anyone. But his stories, fractured, poetic, delusional, make little sense to anyone who hears them.

    Except one man.

    Enter Kim Hongjoong, a calm, intelligent forensic psychiatrist consultant assigned to the case. At first, he appears gentle. Professional. Curious. He tells Seonghwa he believes him, when no one else does. He listens patiently as Seonghwa speaks of shadows that don’t move right, voices that steal his name, and the thing inside the walls that wore someone else’s face.

    As trust deepens and Seonghwa begins to open up, the lines between truth and madness begin to blur. Because in a place built to cage the broken, sometimes the most dangerous person isn’t the one on the other side of the glass. It’s the one holding the key.

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    17 Jul 2025

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    dad,” areum whines, “our ice cream!”

    “yeah, yeah, i know.” he kisses areum loudly, more than once, on the cheek before loosening his grip only enough for her to use both arms. she spins in place so she’s facing jihoon and keeps eating.

    iseul takes advantage and hugs him tighter, bowl mostly forgotten in the hand behind his neck. ”we found someone safe like you told us to.”

    it’s all so… personal. jihoon comes to the mall to watch people, but this is too close. he kind of wishes he’d slipped away after all.

    “i meant a security guard or police officer, but”—he looks up at jihoon with relief still on his face and mouths a quick thank you—”good job. and he bought you ice cream?”

    “yep,” they both say.

    “before dinner. great,” he deadpans.

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    08 Jul 2024

  3. Public Bookmark 15

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    Years ago in one summer afternoon, Jihoon met the son of the sun.

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    30 Nov 2023

  4. Public Bookmark 58

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    Mr Kwon hesitates, but keeps Jihoon’s gaze. “You have made no secret that you are not inclined to the marriage mart, nor the gossip of high society,” he says finally, haltingly. “I - As you must have deduced by now, I myself am not keen to marry. As both of our mothers are pressuring us to marry, I thought, perhaps...”

    He trails off, but Jihoon can catch his gist. “Perhaps we could come to a understanding,” he finishes, and Mr Kwon gives nod of agreement.

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    Persistent wallflower of going on 6 seasons, Lee Jihoon has long been dismissed by the ton as just short of unmarriageable - so imagine his shock when he receives a marriage proposal from Kwon Soonyoung, of all people. Surely the only son of the Viscount of Namyangju had much better prospects than a new money, country bumpkin all the way from Busan?

    However, in the weeks following their marriage, Jihoon comes to realise that a deep, dark secret plagues his new husband...

    Written for the Soonhoon Summer Breeze Ficfest 2023.

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    29 Nov 2023

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    In which Jihoon and Soonyoung retired as a famous duo and are now teaching.

    Their students have no idea who they are.

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    28 Oct 2023