Literature
Stay With Me
TW: suicidal thoughts and emotional self-harm. Kim thought about jumping from the bridge as she leaned against the cold, hard side of it, staring out at the water reflecting, murkily so, the city lights. The rest of Advent had all left. They had just finished a night shoot for their latest ‘Dance in Public’ video—a huge thing in the world of k-pop fan crews, giving the project three attempts in three separate, pre-planned locations. Oh, and how the lyrics of ‘Levanter’ by Stray Kids still resonated in Kim’s heart, mind and soul; resonated like her limbs were still ablaze with movement. ‘I wanna be myself,’ she thought-sang, eyes heavy in their creasing. ‘I don’t care.’ Deliberately, she pressed herself against the railing. ‘But I’m still not free. Not yet.’ Normally, Advent would celebrate what they jokingly referred to as their ‘periodic superhero team-up meetings’ with dinner, the outfits they wore for that day’s recording—as crowd-funded via their Patreon—and