The Bait: Short Stories
"Behind every hidden identity and false promise lies a deeper truth."
The Bait, a collection of seven short stories, explores the unsettling yet familiar encounters we face in our everyday digital spaces-particularly on platforms like Facebook. Centered around scammers who infiltrate lives, manipulate emotions, and leave lasting scars, these narratives reveal the hidden faces behind deceptive words and actions.
With sharp insight, the author captures human desires, illusions, and the painful realities lurking beneath our interactions. These stories thoughtfully probe the psychology of betrayal, trust, and healing, posing the poignant question:
"Why do we trust so easily-and why do we fall apart even more easily?"
The answers lie within these compelling tales, written with quiet yet profound clarity drawn from personal experience and deep introspection. Having navigated her own significant losses, the author distills truth from pain, crafting delicate yet powerful prose. Throughout these pages, her heartfelt encouragement offers a comforting embrace to anyone carrying unseen wounds.
Seasons change, and life blooms again. This book recognizes your resilience through life's ups and downs-past sorrows, memories you'd rather forget, and the hopeful arrival of spring.
From buried emotions transformed into captivating storytelling, these stories speak of hardship, emptiness, and ultimately, the tender sprouting of hope.
If you've ever felt hurt, betrayed, or alone, may these narratives bring you comfort, strength, and the reassuring promise that spring will always come again.
Of the seven stories by Haehwa Park included in this collection, "The 'S' on the Target" received the Gyeongbuk Ilbo Literary Award, and "The Con Artist Behind the Profile" was awarded the Korean Lyric Literature Prize.
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