Gina Chung

against a male octopus, who will insert his hectocotylus into her mantle cavity and deposit sperm packets inside her until sh

Tae never liked my working at the aquarium.

He was a marine biologist and a consultant for the aquarium, tasked with making sure that the tanks replicated the animals’ natural environments as much as possible.

animal husbandry and she’s in development

I was nine years old

papier-mâché eyeball

casually tossed in bits of raw fish and shrimp from a bucke

I was always Arim, or Bae Arim, my full name, if I was in trouble.

man-made folly and natural resilience collide, began one entry.

how much she wanted to die, how much she wished they had never come to this country.