“Parents who destroy their children’s lives, who suck the life out of their children’s futures, not only for the sake of maintaining their own illusions but also to zealously expand them into the lives of their children-such parents can almost be understood from the perspective of obsession. ‘ Goodbye, My Love‘ – a sci-fi story complete with incremental robots and humanizing them perhaps also reflects a time in future when they would be common and indispensable but at what cost? ‘ The Frozen Finger‘ takes us through the vortex of memories and confusion following a car accident with magical realism and an unending maze leaving you in daze! A chilling end, it completely took me by surprise! Told by the narrator’s grandfather, he takes us through the implications of curse and how it impacts the one who puts it as well. ‘Cursed Bunny‘ takes us through the story of a family who make cursed fetishes for others. Chung takes us to the harsh realities and preconceived notions on a woman’s place and identity. Her body and its output forms the baseline in both the stories. While ‘ The Head‘ confers to the beauty and behavioral standards as a woman, ‘ The Embodiment‘ takes you to the nightmares of a woman who ends up pregnant as a result of faulty medication intake. ‘ The Head‘ and ‘ The Embodiment‘ address women, their identity and individuality deemed null without a man to hold a name/place in their lives. 10 short stories and each of them completely blew me away.

Ranging from dystopian-ish fiction to sci-fi to horror and folklore the stories threw curveballs every single time! I came across the book while surfing Scribd and the title and the cover art had me digging it in. Not the cries of someone driven mad with fear, but the tears of someone who understood and was saddened by their own loneliness-the tears of a human being.”īora Chung’s Cursed Bunny translated from Korean by Anton Hur is a deliciously dark ride. “That was the first time he sobbed in earnest.

Bunny cursed