Walking Practice

by Dolki Min

What It’s About

An alien in human form walks the streets of Seoul, luring people through dating apps and devouring them. But this isn’t horror for the sake of shock. It’s a biting allegory for queerness, invisibility, and what it means to be unlovable in a society obsessed with appearances.

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My Take

Grotesque. Brilliant. Uncomfortable in all the right ways.

Dolki Min uses speculative fiction to get under your skin. The “alien” is lonely and hungry, not just for flesh but for connection. It’s about survival when you don’t fit, and the violence of being othered.

This isn’t a warm book. But it lingers. If you’ve ever been treated like a curiosity or a threat just for existing, it’ll hit hard. One of the strangest and most honest things I’ve read this year.

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