Monday, June 16, 2025

June Microfiction Challenge

 



WORDS: Prints. Frames. Cleans


In the lull of the copier that prints June's reports for the month, Holly finds herself dreaming of last summer when she was only thinking of having this job in the City. She smiles dreamily thinking of  Newton as he frames with his fingers with a cocky grin of how she'd look in pictures as they walk down the boardwalk with the waves behind them. She plays into his fantasy with a sassy grin and makes her way to the snowcones, where she only buys one and begins to eat it as if she might be a tease, just like he said. The sour apple ice begins to drip down her mouth and into her top, but she keeps taunting him as if this could be a pleasure while he cracks into laughter with a shrug that maybe he isn't the voyeur that she thought he was. The ball of green ice unexpectedly splats on her painted seafoam toes, which Newton promptly cleans up.

Saturday, June 14, 2025

Second Shot at Love & it's problems

 


You've got a great cast for this drama. Even a fine supporting cast. However, it does rely on old ways of thinking. Like blaming the whole family on one consequence. Shunning a divorced woman that she can never be enough to marry again (even when none of the bad stuff was her fault). As one co-worker told me whose mom is Korean (She married someone part Korean like herself), reputation is very important. Thus, many things can haunt one living their life in Korea. The past can certainly make life difficult, and you will find that kind of story in this drama. Perhaps this is how it comes to play of social media with this thinking, and it is a very sad thing. I still think it falls back to the days of how they held each other in captivity, and the status of just who you are. Definitely, a sad situation that still continues. Unfortunately. While here in the states, we are thinking, "Can't they just let it be?"

I'm glad the drama is facing the issue of how common alcohol is in the workplace and how they expect you to drink along with the aftermath of such drinking can really harm someone's health. 

Of course, this is a culture thriving on spicy foods and lots of fun with soju. It is hard for the rest of us to understand.