A Strangers from Hell drabble.
First published January 2025.
Moonjo x Jongwoo, 100 words.
Moonjo doesn’t really exist to Jongwoo, he thinks, until he asks Jongwoo about his writing. Before then, they’re just two people in the same space. Jongwoo doesn’t know that he has already entered Moonjo’s imagination.
But now Jongwoo comes alive: the sullenness disappears, because here, in his imaginings of murder, is a subject he is truly enthusiastic about. Moonjo can see the fire in him, and he wants to stoke it. Wants to know the damage it could do.
It’s dangerous, when Moonjo sees something he likes.
Maybe Jongwoo will only disappoint him.
Or maybe Moonjo wants to get burned.