한국어

I Got My First Paycheck, But My Card Bill Was Deducted Immediately

A worker receives their first paycheck only to watch it disappear instantly, spiraling into existential doubt about their life and worth.

This story was written one sentence at a time, by many different people.
Each sentence was submitted separately and chosen by community vote before the next one could be written. Nobody knew how it would end.
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Living paycheck to paycheck for a month... it wasn't so bad.

It wasn't bad, but it wasn't good either—just an existence.

Honestly, I couldn't feel any meaning in why I was working myself to the bone.

But today, the person staring back at me in the mirror looked impossibly small.

4 sentences Translated from Korean
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