lies told to children (джен)

“I finally realized that my husband had long since stopped loving the me that was a human being. This realization came both all at once and gradually, like a cup filled to the brim with thousands of drops of water, trembling with the effort of not going over the edge. I lied to myself for a long, long time. But it only took one drop for everything to spill over, in the end.”
— Excerpt from Chapter 9 of Lee Sookyung’s best-selling memoir, Underground Killer
 
Kim Dokja wakes up to the overwhelming sound of silence.