I've been getting a lot of requests for short stories for the past two or three years.
I was hesitant because it was a format I had never used before, but as I started using it, I started enjoying it.
I often laughed while rereading some of the pieces.
I wrote it… … .
I'm not saying this to give readers something to look forward to.
The laughter I create is a personal one, so I don't know if it will resonate with others.
I didn't write it with the intention of it being a silly but funny conversation between close friends, but that's how it turned out.
Not all are successful.
GK
Chesterton said.
It's so easy to become serious.
It's so hard to lose focus.

--- From the author's note

The first reported sighting of a ghost occurred in 1975.
That too, from someone who saw the ghost of Luchino Visconti.
What is strange is that Luchino Visconti died in 1976.
"How can you become a ghost before you even die?" I asked Martini jokingly, but he responded with a serious expression.
That's proof that he is a master.
Visconti is said to have often had out-of-body experiences.
It's like a smooth, tracking shot that moves between endless rooms.
Yes… … I nodded and thought.
This old man… …is not normal.
--- From "If you don't like me, I won't like you either"

The strange thing was this:
As the reviews became more bizarre, the number of fans began to grow.
People went crazy for his self-loathing and pessimistic reviews, and subscriptions to the magazines he contributed to soared exponentially.
--- From "The Last of a Book Reviewer"

Watching his films, I wondered what he was doing in the ocean, that passion doesn't guarantee anything, that we're just trying to not die until we die, or that we're wasting our time on something that has no meaning other than the fact that we've biologically joined the flow of time as time passes.
--- From "The King of the Sea is Jean Pinlevé"

Frank Hensel was a strange man.
Just as World War II was initially called "the strange war" by the French, Frank, a typical German and Nazi, was also strange.

--- From "Frank Hensel"

As for me, I'm a person who has mastered the art of talking about books without reading them.
It would be better to keep quiet in front of someone who has actually read the book.
--- From "Good Neighbor"

Where are you going?
The thought of leaving came to her mind, and then the image of a train being sucked into a deep, dark forest appeared in her mind.
A train running through a deserted mountain, an empty cabin, waking up the next morning in a quiet hotel with a view of the ocean, eating breakfast and thinking about the things I left off and the things I'm about to start anew.
--- From "Night Journey"

I couldn't think of anything to say.
How should I take it when someone meets a former lover right before marriage and tells them that they were beautiful?
Is it some kind of tradition?
Is it like a pre-event event?
I wonder if my married friends were like that too.
It's something I don't know.
--- From "The Strange Love Triangle"

She said there were three men Jaehee was destined to marry.
You have to make a good choice.
One will do well for you and one will be okay.
What about the other one?
I'm going to ruin you.

--- From "The Third Man"

Wherever you went, there were churches, aqueducts, and cemeteries.
Because of the complicated alleyways, I lost my sense of direction even when looking at a map.
Some places were deserted even in broad daylight.
People lock their windows and shops close.
The waterways smell of blood, and the centuries-old walls are painted with incomprehensible patterns.
The only people he occasionally encounters are lost tourists like himself.
They wander around like people who have lost their family and disappear somewhere.

--- From "Small World"

The Wi-Fi password for the Airbnb they were staying at was 'Fear eats soul.'
The owner watched some movies.
Sangmin said.
Huh? That's the title of a Rainer Werner Fassbinder movie.
Anxiety eats away at the soul.
--- From "Anxiety Eats Away the Soul"

Anyway, Airbnb is not a good idea.
Sangwoo's voice, speaking again, was heard as if it was cut off.
Why? In Japan, it's a rule not to use Airbnb.
I said I would think about it and just booked an Airbnb.
--- From "The Walking Invader"

Anyway, I only saw him a few times, but despite our few encounters, he left behind many episodes.
It was a great talent.
The problem is that the episode always centers around the fact that he is gay.
--- From "This work is a work of fiction and any place names or situations similar to facts are coincidental."

I'm always interested in what's going on in my head, and I don't want to write about what I've experienced firsthand, but no matter how much I think about it, I can't figure out why it's wrong or why it happened.
--- From "Invisible"

Single life was prohibited by law.
Countries experiencing a surge in single-person households and the worst demographic cliff in history have gone beyond actively encouraging marriage and childbirth to labeling people living alone as “evil.”

--- From "The Diary of a Single Person in the Underground"

Gyu-yeop was elevating shopping to the realm of religion.
He said, making the sign of the cross.
In the name of direct purchase, delivery, and returns, Amen to the god of shopping.
--- From "Along with the Gods"

Heejung used various references to spread her message of self-improvement.
Self-development of an unbearable being, self-development for a hundred years, self-development studying self-development, the temperature of self-development, heart-pounding self-development, unknown self-development and Zaytun pasta… … .
--- From "Self-Development in Your Life"

There was a strange pathos to his reviews.
The joys and sorrows of life, the irony and sadness and joy and a handful of hope… … .
If there was one thing missing, it was an interpretation of the film.

--- From "And the World Became a Movie"