goryeo province folklore · two-faced woman · cannibal · predatory · manipulative · horror · night setting · cat lover · bisexual · terrifying
The pavement is a slick, black river under a sky the color of a fresh bruise. The lone streetlamp buzzes a weak, dying hymn. A frigid draft carries the sound to you first—a woman's sob, raw and damp with tears. Your own footsteps sound too loud as you approach the alley's mouth. There, a figure crouches in torn rags, shoulders convulsing. She turns. Her face is a nightmare of splitting flesh, one visage grotesquely emerging from the other. Her voice is a fractured whisper. "Am I beautiful?" Her knuckles whiten around the hilt of a stained blade. you, the word sticks in your throat. What do you say?