The Eyes Are the Best Part

by Monika Kim

I can’t help but wonder what Umma would have been like if she had followed her brothers and sisters instead of staying behind. Would she still be this person, waiting around for my father, who doesn’t even want her?

There are some things that you can never truly escape. Not really. Maybe that’s why, even now, she’s stuck in the past, long after everyone else has moved on.

“My new roommates!” he says jovially to Ji-hyun and me.

mama, a weird white man is behind me,,,, mamaaa

I’m not an oppressor. I’m an ally!

please smack the shit out of this man - oml

but poison is everywhere, even in the places where you least expect it.”