Stephen K. Kim (he/him) is a queer Korean American writer and educator in upstate New York. He enjoys spending time with his husband and his cat. His prose appears in the Lit Nerds, AC|DC Literary Journal, the Palisades Review, and elsewhere. He can be found online @skimperil.
In each hand, I grip the exercise band and pull until the band is a taut swath of lime green. My nose twitches at the synthetic smell of rubber, as unnatural as the band’s color.
