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To Love a Stranger is Certain Death by Brandon J. Choi — Carve Magazine | HONEST FICTION

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In the summer of 2006, when my hometown’s beloved Choi’s Videos went out of business, Mr. and Mrs. Choi decided to sell their inventory as a last-ditch effort before retiring and moving across the street from their eldest son in North Carolina

SUBSCRIBE Brandon J. Choi is a Korean American writer based in Brooklyn. He is a 2022 Periplus Fellow and has attended workshops at Tin House and VONA. He is currently working on a short story collection. This is his fiction debut. In the summer of 2006, when my hometown’s beloved Choi’s Videos went out of business, Mr. and Mrs. Choi decided to sell their inventory as a last-ditch effort before retiring and moving across the street from their eldest son in North Carolina. A long line formed outside of Choi’s Videos on that final Saturday. Flocks of ahjummas chattered, sweat beading at their fo

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