Kion You

Kion You is a writer based in Korea. His fiction is forthcoming in the Santa Monica Review and The Asian American Writers’ Workshop’s The Margins, and his nonfiction has been published in the Los Angeles Review of Books.

SUN IS MISSING by Kion You

The Korean rice weevil is a felicitous insect, bent on one simple task: scaling my bedroom walls. Tonight I see three but sometimes there are as many as ten. The thrill must be similar to that of free solo climbing, but when the weevil falls it gets back up and tries again—the hard-shelled advantage.  After dinner I lie in bed, which is a mat on the ground. One weevil wordlessly falls onto my blanket. It lands on its back and its legs flail like a pit of eels. After gathering itself, the weevil plants its left anterior leg onto the…

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