“Your defecations are a part of me,” it tells the woman, “so I will always know where you are.” But the unifying themes of “Cursed Bunny” are of return and revenge - the talking poop head is going to come back, and each time it will have grown larger and more sinister. And because we are in the wonderfully warped world of Bora Chung’s fiction, the woman proceeds to nonchalantly flush it away and leave the bathroom. The talking head is revealed to be a lumpy, sentient being formed from the protagonist’s bodily waste. There was a head popping out of the toilet, calling for her.
CURSED BUNNY: Stories, by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hurįew story collections greet their reader with an introductory sequence as disarmingly gross as the one in “Cursed Bunny.” “The Head” begins:
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