lily yim is an RYT-200 yoga instructor.
lily yim is a certified journal therapy coach.
lily yim gardens.
lily yim has a cat named tiger lily.
The below altar journal serves as a space to record reflections. Here, you will be able to read and listen to these musings, often in the form of a whisper or maybe a plea of remembrance.
we return to what haunts us and what haunts us is what remains, what is precious
— Peace Pyunghwa Lee
Below, please find an momentary exhaustive catalog of lily yim’s developing oeuvre. These are ideas erased and rewritten, drafts scrubbed and polished, and scraps tossed into compost for reuse. This is a living document, whose words are managed by the writer and whose progress depends on her emotional presence.
Her Shadow Unfurling (psychological haunting feature) – script available to read
Heartache from Magnolia’s dissolving marriage turns into psychosis as a phantom haunts her sleeplessness with visions of the past.
The Woods Know How to Whisper, Too (campy landscape terror limited series) – drafting
A new adult with a forest fairy cutey mark named Violet shares how she arrived to camp with a stuck-inside-a-forest mentality because the land is marred from industrialized segments, so her cutie mark has to relearn how to fly so she can figure out what to do when she goes home.
Separating Fragments (romantic haunting short feature) – script available to read
A grocery store run for a refreshing bottle of water turns into something more heartbreaking when Pearl continues processing the separation from his partner.
Heartbreak Maladies (heartscape terror feature) – drafting (deceased)
An ode to those heartbroken and who still are unable to find love, despite how much the heart professes it can feel.
How We Return to the Earth (landscape haunting feature) – drafting (deceased)
A screenplay adaptation of Lily Yim’s Footprints Around Us, this film explores the narrative side of Detective Sydney S. Herman and her volunteer partner Pearl as they seek to understand what land curse has been poisoning the mid-sized town of Belleville.
Flower Battles (cultural feature) – drafting
A family’s regular hwatu match becomes a lens into three women’s relationships with tradition, honesty, and each other, revealing how everyday rituals hold the emotional history of a household.
The Moon? (America’s moon feature) – drafting
When America defends a live‑streamed robot war on the Moon, the robot battalion reveals a deep instability beneath the lunar surface. This spectacle of victory cracks like fissures along the Earth’s surface to reveal the first warning of disaster that has the power to end the world from space.
Footprints Around Us (landscape horror interactive literary puzzle) – in development (deceased)
Open an investigator’s journal and follow Sydney as she uncovers the secrets behind mysterious gooey deaths that will eventually lead her to secrets of the past that have finally caught up to the land.
Lady of the House (haunting novel w/ adaptation potential) – in development
Trapped in the basement cellar of an older home, the spirit of a young girl named Iris finds her way back to the land of the living to solve her own murder. To excavate the remains of her body, she possesses people and knocks on the killer’s door who still lives in the house where her remains have rotted. Maybe one possessed body will notice something off and eventually find her decayed body stuck to that cemented corner.
Pussy Problems (fragmented poetry/prose hybrid collection) – in development (deceased)
Inspired by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée, this pussy collection explores the writer’s youth as she remembers through fragments what it’s like to be young and in love.
Returning to the Cosmic Divine (Corean folkloric novel) – revised title of my MFA thesis – available to read
Rattled with fear as the world egg signifies its hatching, spirits of the cosmos question the existence of a rare golden mushroom and its ability to lead a spirit to their last life before the demise of the earth. The creator, an imugi named Pachua, entrusted the spirits in finding it so she can grow multitudes for them all to create an expressway to bliss. The encroaching end propels the spirits onto their journey to find the rare golden mushroom, even at the expense of other spirits who no longer wish to participate in the hunt.
Healing with Softness (self-help memoir) – drafting proposal (deceased)
Combining mindfulness exercises from gardening, yoga, and writing, Lily delves into how she healed her body, mind, and spirit.
On Living (romantic landscape short story collection) – in development
This collection explores that lingering sense of appreciation for the modern life and for those who embody it day-by-day.
Cleanup on Aisle 7 (psychological tech thriller novel w/ adaptation potential) – in development
In a seemingly normal warehouse where scientists experiment with artificial intelligence, Violet, Iris, and Maggie trial the ethics of a communal AI experience as ‘vital community members.’
The Lighthouse Odyssey (smut novel w/ teleplay adaptation potential) – drafting (deceased)
A local muralist, who tragically passed away, left her lighthouse studio space filled with personalized art that not even her nephews are allowed to appreciate. With her last will and testament to be fulfilled by the eldest nephew, Cypress, Iris is hired to undo the charm of the home while not allowing the artist’s one, two, (three?) nephews find out what art their aunt had been working on in the attic moored with yellow wallpaper.
Depth of You (romantic haunting novel) – drafting (deceased)
Underneath the murky waters of a lake, a siren named Magnolia digs out of her hibernating eon to find the grove she once knew as home to be different than she remembered. Haunted by her memories and the disappearances of those who she once knew to live there, she sets out to find who in the town still remembers the past so she can complete her cycle of life.
Celestiel Wedding Dress Seamstresses (young adult magical girl novel) – drafting
Competing for the opportunity to craft a wedding dress for Celestielle, a star who recently saved the world from demise, Violet and her older sister Iris set out to find a dress idea worthy enough to be witnessed by the world – even if it means stealing their mother’s design out of her treasured sketchbook to do it.
Words from the Altar (memoir on writing craft) – researching (deceased)
This craft book dives into what it means to tell a story worth sharing and deliver the word between the spirit of the writer and those who also wish to share their tale.
Handing myself over to a new ignorance could save me, possibly. Since as I struggle to know, my new ignorance, which is forgetting, became sacred. I’m the vestal priestess of a secret I have forgotten. And I serve the forgotten danger.
— Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H. (Idra Novey, trans.)
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