A short story about sobriety, caretaking, and the fragile boundary between helping others and needing help oneself.

In the act of caring for someone else, the story reveals the carer's own vulnerability.

A darkly comic short story about detention, bodily pain, and the uneasy mix of cruelty and sympathy.

Within a condition of confinement, physical suffering and irony keep colliding.

A classroom game turns into a story about favoritism, ritual, and the anger that hides beneath order.

A simple game releases the classroom's hidden tensions.