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.
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Each sentence was submitted separately and chosen by community vote before the next one could be written. Nobody knew how it would end.
Read the Korean original →
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.
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