influences:
music:// frank ocean , mitski, schoolboy q, vince staples, actress, yves tumour, sza, the hellp, ryuichi sakamoto,
writers:// yukio mishima, tao lin (early work), f scott fitzgerald, gen urobouchi, sca-di, hiroki azuma, byung chul han, sayaka murata, inio asano, tatsuya iguchi, ray bradbury, jamie marina lau
film:// johnnie to , john singleton, wong kar wai, nagisa oshima, hayao miyazaki, all about lily chou chou, hideaki anno, american takeover,
anime-manga://serial experiments lain, akira, chobits,
games:// swat 4, midnight club, metal gear solid, katamari damacy, hotline miami, jet set radio, ridge racers, need for speed, gran turismo, battle gear 4, grand theft auto 4, tokyo xtreme racer, night-runners, spec ops the line, 10hit
aesthetics://y2k, gothic lolita, jirai-kei, tech-wear, soft club, brutalist architecture, street wear
tags: short-story collection, romance story, pickpockets, challenger disaster, self-harm, nissan 240z, liminal spaces, canada, america, hong kong, chrysler lhs, subway stations, montreal, winter, markham, contemporary
/SYNOPSIS
adrift youth, sheng-tze-ho / 生謝河 finds himself meeting samuel lau-ka-yan / 劉凯艳, a new transfer student, outside of the glittering conversations of a family gathering. when ho intervenes in a fight between yan and the school delinquents, the underworld pulls him and prefect, rin hui-kei-lin / 回圭蓮 into a world they seem to live every day, a society espousing its principles in the floes of exchanges both monetary, and violent
