A/N: There's an illustration in this chapter, let me know if it works.
Eun Ha's POV:
"Are you... are you saying that..." Eun Ha was dumbstruck. "No, my son, he would never."
Dr. ...
2026-01-12 03:21:32 +0000 UTC View PostEun Ha's POV:
Psychiatrist Log #2
Patient: Jong Eun Ha
Session 2 – XX/XX/2025
Dr. Han Ji Yoon (private practice, Seoul)
...
Eun Ha sat on the same plush arm...
2026-01-11 03:02:48 +0000 UTC View PostSocial media never sleeps. It's one big relentless machine. My phone buzzed. Notifications piled up. X posts. Tags. Videos of my goals going viral. Followers. DMs.
#AFCU17Champions.
"Jae-il Cha is the future of Kor...
2026-01-10 02:42:02 +0000 UTC View PostAFC CUP FINAL 2025
Winner — South Korea.
Confetti came falling like petals and people all around were screaming in exultations.
Everyone was chanting loudly and wearing large, silly smile...
2026-01-09 01:38:43 +0000 UTC View PostJassim's POV:
An abyssal roar bursted inside the stadium, and he could've sworn that he was on another planet when he heard the distinct roar from thousands upon thousands of Korean supporters.
Their chants thundered a...
2026-01-06 21:10:35 +0000 UTC View PostJassim's POV:
The entire Qatar team now seemed to be functioning in survival mode. A single-minded, desperate scramble to keep the ball as far away from their own goal as humanly possible.
Every single one of them was ...
2026-01-05 04:47:14 +0000 UTC View PostJassim proudly beamed at the applause.
After all that build-up and suspense, Dae-hyun, having gotten his soul sucked by yet another denial from Jassim's clutches, sluggishly dragged himself across the ground.
Jong-su rubbed the back of...
2026-01-04 04:41:44 +0000 UTC View PostI nudged the ball with the instep of my right foot, sending it threading through the gap created when Number 4 lunged in too eagerly.
I took one power step forward to explode past him but immediately chopped that short as Number 2 came slidi...
2026-01-03 02:58:13 +0000 UTC View PostOriginal has been hidden, here's the repost.
2026-01-02 03:36:29 +0000 UTC View PostThe ball was kicked and passed back. We moved like one entity. The sphere flew around our midfield as we began a boring game of keep-away, probing for gaps in Qatar's surging wall. They pressed high right from the start, eager to snag it away and ...
2026-01-02 02:48:36 +0000 UTC View PostU-17 AFC, Finals.
South Korea vs Qatar.
Last game of the AFC U-17 Tournament
Here we are. The final of something. Certainly not the most important or high pressure tournament, but a final nonetheless. An end of a cycle, and the b...
2025-12-31 03:10:00 +0000 UTC View PostEun Ha's POV:
Mia laughed. A painful, tight laugh that sounded more like a wheeze. "You must be insane, mom. We're... brother and sister! How can you say these things...?"
Eun Ha blinked a couple times, as if she was c...
2025-12-30 05:04:44 +0000 UTC View PostEun Ha's POV:
"......."
There was a very pregnant pause. A pause long enough to plant, grow and pick a fruit of the pauses.
"Bring someone over...? Uhh, like for a meal? Or like... a party?"
"Anytime."
<... 2025-12-28 04:05:15 +0000 UTC View PostMia's POV:
Mia's heart pounded.
It felt like a dream. Her mother giving her advice on how to keep her brother by her side. How ridiculous was that?
And yet it was advice she already knew. Had already, perhaps unc...
2025-12-27 03:17:49 +0000 UTC View PostThis year is almost over too.
I'd like to thank everyone who has been with me for so long. This is a small community, yet I treasure what we've all built together. From those who began following me since the heydays of Paranoia, to those wh...
2025-12-25 14:12:30 +0000 UTC View PostAn old acquaintance who claimed he had been to the gates of hell spoke of darkness. That very same acquaintance swore blind on his children, parents, dead relatives and everything good in the universe, that his deceased mother had grabbed him by t...
2025-12-24 22:57:08 +0000 UTC View PostMia's POV:
Mia stopped.
Her back was to her mother, but she could feel Eun Ha's eyes on her.
Her mother wanted to do her nails.
Mia remembered afternoons like that. The sharp smell of polish. Eun Ha's gentl...
2025-12-22 20:21:51 +0000 UTC View PostThis is slightly different from the summary I wrote in the poll, but decided to go a different route. I wrote this in one sitting, some stuff may not make sense. Some stuff need revising and explaining.
The story sho...
2025-12-21 18:49:37 +0000 UTC View PostEun Ha's POV:
"Protect him... uh..."
Eun Ha stared blankly at her daughter. The way Mia said it… it wasn’t the casual promise of a protective older sister. It was a territorial declaration. She wouldn't have though...
2025-12-20 16:20:27 +0000 UTC View PostEun Ha's POV:
She'd seen such marks before, on her own body. On the bodies of her friends back in college. They were love bites. Hickeys. Suck-marks. Or at least, what else could it be? The shape and coloration were a dead g...
2025-12-18 16:59:05 +0000 UTC View PostEun Ha's POV:
The woman in the mirror finally had a semblance of normality again.
Eun Ha tilted her head, studying the reflection as if it belonged to someone else. The cheeks were not as hollow anymore; the circles un...
2025-12-17 18:16:32 +0000 UTC View PostMia's POV:
"Hey, are you okay, you sound strange..."
Mia kept one hand on the phone, her other hand brushing her hair in front of the vanity mirror. The knots came off, smooth, silk running through her fingertips. She ...
2025-12-16 02:18:08 +0000 UTC View PostSu Ah's POV:
Su Ah would have taken personal offense, because come on, she didn't exactly seek him out to get berated like this, but for some reason, seeing his irritability... it made her smile a little.
This time, th...
2025-12-14 22:57:30 +0000 UTC View PostSu Ah's POV:
She pulled the brim of her cap lower the moment the bus doors sighed open.
Voices spilled out first—laughs, tired cheers, exhausted complaints—then the boys themselves, tall shadows under the streetlig...
2025-12-13 00:30:51 +0000 UTC View PostBeen chewing around this idea, let me know if it's a hit or a miss:
Marcus Hale, a 35-year-old everyman from a dead-end town, has spent his adult life scraping by—overqualified for the jobs he can get, underpaid for the ones he ...
2025-12-12 15:59:05 +0000 UTC View Post
