Korean-American Psycho 3

By Steve

Sun, 05 Feb 2012
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She sat at the bar, waiting. She was like a spider waiting for a fly to get stuck in her web.

Someone sat next to her, looked around a little bit and then ordered a Corona.

"Cold day," he commented.
She looked at his sideward appearance. He looked handsome and rich.
"You need a coat to warm you up," she responded.
Then she looked into his eyes, almost trying to hypotize him.
"Do you come here often?"
"When I'm lonely."
"And what makes you so lonely now?"
"Korean men bore me to death."

He chuckled.

"It's a sin to bore attractive women."
"Am I attractive to you or exotic? Don't I have slitty eyes and is my nose not too flat for you?"
"No. no."
He was taken back a little.
"No. You're gorgeous. I must admit that you do look exotic."
She felt pity for him.
"You look exotic too," she continued.
"My name's Derek. What's your name?"
"Samantha."
"Do you want to sit at a table?" he asked.
"Yes. Will you buy me dinner?"
Derek chuckled once again.
"Sure."

"So what do you do Derek?"
"I work for an online literary magazine."
"Really" (Maybe she had chosen the wrong guy).
"And you?"
"I work for Vogue." (Maybe I should have said Vanity Fair).
"Really." (I have no idea where this conversation is going).

The food arrived and she ate the food voraciously. She did not know why she was so hungry, but she even licked the plate.

"You were hungry," he commented.
She tried to look at him with loving and kind eyes, the kind of eyes she had before she had become so disillusioned of men.
"Why don't we go back to my place," she suggested.
Derek looked at her for a while.
"Yes. let's go there."

Certificate 15
Story
Relationships
Fantasy

Comments

Submitted by lavadis on
Steve, you write conversation well and this is imaginative but do you think the title might be off putting. I have read American Psycho and would have thought you do not want people to compare that with your work. Just my opinion!

 

Submitted by Steve on
I thought about that. In fact, I named it Korean-American Psycho after American Psycho. I have never read American Psycho but saw the movie. I am really not generalizing about Korean-Americans here. I am writing about a very specific person, a Korean-American Psycho. Some Koreans have a tendency to keep things inside of themselves for a long time and then explode. There's a hermit quality to the Korean personality also... people say Koreans do not stick together. Koreans do not stick together like rice... etc. I really wanted to explore the relationship between marginalized Korean-Americans and the center of society here... the rich, the handsome and beautiful, the highly successful, etc. although the victim is not all of those things. The sense of not really having a face, and a superficial materialism that can drive one to insanity... those elements of American Psycho is in this writing, but as you will see, the Korean-American Psycho is not as cruel as the American Psycho. Thank you so much for your comment.