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Laura Ye

Epilogue

Epilogue. June 2021. This illustration was inspired by the quote," while they take satisfaction in bickering during their fits of anger, they both end up feeling weary and hollow afterward, like a theater letting out or sobering up.” It is from a novel by Qian Zhongshu titled "Fortress Besieged."
Laura Ye

Soup: The Last Death page 26

Soup: The Last Death page 26. December 2021. An excerpt from a wordless comic that follows the last human being on earth to die and meet Meng Po, who is a mythical being residing in the underworld and offers the dead a soup meant to erase their memories so they can reincarnate.