A Strangers from Hell drabble.
First published July 2022.
Jongwoo x Jieun, 100 words.
Jieun only visits Jongwoo in hospital the once. She’s very sorry, she tells him, and she hopes he gets better, but she won’t be coming back.
He imagines her in her ordinary life, busy busy busy. She ‘hopes he gets better’, but the way she’d asked the nurse to stay in the room … he knows she’s terrified. It isn’t the first time he’s terrified her, after all.
How much did she see? How much does she remember? The questions repeat in his mind until there is only one answer: die die die die die.
The same answer as for everything.