Chapter 21

Part 5: Persimmons, Dried Yellow Croaker, Romeo (1) The good thing about a studio apartment was that you could run the heat as much as you wanted. Last winter, Inwoo had gone beyond the ordinary and run the heat to his heart’s content. Something precious had taken up residence in his body. It was a winter that would never come again. For the first two weeks after moving in, he slept an ungodly amount. It was late January, right around the holiday, and the cold, the tension, and the fear that had piled up through the end of the year melted away cozily in the small room. He always went to see Dad for the holidays, but this time he