By Hye-young Pyun, from an unpublished collection. Pyun’s most recent novel is The Hole; another, Ashes and Red, will be published this year by Arcade. Translated from the Korean by Sora Kim-Russell.
The man got the phone call about a month after his wife went missing. A body part belonging to a woman had been found in a mountain gorge, the same gorge where the man’s wife had fallen and was presumed drowned. The man told the detective on the other end of the phone that he would leave in the morning. There was no point in leaving any…