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Che Yeun

Che Yeun is from Seoul, Korea, and New Orleans, Louisiana. Her work has won the 2014 New South Contest, the 2013 Marguerite McGlinn Prize, and the 2012 Enizagam Award. She is working on a collection of short fiction and studying history and philosophy of science at the University of Cambridge.

Spring 2015

The Quiet Thing

By Che Yeun

With one semester left in college, I maxed out all of my credit cards. I applied for more, but none of the remaining banks took me.