Fiction and Other Works
Where the Sun Never Sets
Where the Sun Never Sets follows Soojin, a Korean girl in Japanese-occupied Busan, whose unexpected friendship with Hanako—the governor’s daughter—offers a fragile promise of understanding in a divided world. When a misguided choice shatters that trust and leads to the arrest of Soojin’s father and brother, she is forced into a perilous search for courage, aided by steadfast friends and the quiet strength of family. Through loss, resistance, and a flight to safety, Soojin learns that loyalty can both wound and heal, and that forgiveness is not forgetting but choosing who we will become. Emma Kim’s debut weaves history and heart into a moving tale about the costs of betrayal, the power of compassion, and how hope can rise—like the sun—beyond even the darkest horizon.
Alien, I: An alien arrives on (a still-good part of) Earth
I see land
spin, the world a merry-go-round,
shaken senseless…
Alien, II: Aliens explain why they are visiting Earth
Because we wanted to see you for ourselves –
Because we saw that you have invented this thing called time,
and we never understood how you could lack the thing you created. Like,
Why don’t you just give yourself more time?
Who owns time?…
How We Came to Be
God sat on his fuzzy pink beanbag chair, sipping pineapple juice from a wine glass. He stared off into blank space, a forever stretch of white light – save for his dying succulent plant to his left – and felt bored out of his mind. Most days were fine; now, he felt a boredom so intense that he felt his skin crawl, as though he wanted to escape from his bones…
One evening, together
An old man sat on the porch, his eyes fixed on the horizon as the sun dipped behind the hills. He had spent the last seventy years in this house – the house built by his grandfather – and now, he watched as the last of daylight faded from the sky…
You love me
You love me after school, with fruit cut fresh and laundry folded, unasked.
You love me when you laugh at unfunny things I say, like,
“Today, my teacher really annoyed me.” So then I laugh, and you laugh again, at me, laughing.
You love me when we laugh like a sequence of falling dominos.