Below, please find an exhaustive catalog of Lily Yim’s in-progress oeuvre. It is a culmination of ideas erased and rewritten, drafts scrubbed and polished, and scraps tossed into compost to be reused. This is a living document, whose words are managed by the writer and whose progress depends on her sanity and the emotional presence she chooses to spend on these projects.
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Prose
Footprints Around Us (literary puzzle) – in development
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 (novel w/ adaptation potential) – in development
Trapped in the basement cellar of an older home, the spirit of a young girl finds her way back to the land of the living to solve her 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
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: a Korean American folkloric retelling (novel) – querying
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 (memoir) – drafting proposal
Combining learned meditative practices from gardening, yoga, and writing, the author delves into how she healed her body, mind, and spirit.
On Living (short story collection) – in development
This collection explores that lingering sense of appreciation for the modern life and those who embody it day-by-day.
Cleanup on Aisle 7 (novel w/ adaptation potential) – in development
In a seemingly normal warehouse where scientists experiment with artificial intelligence, Gerty, Jac, and Ima trial the ethics of a communal AI experience as ‘vital community members.’
The Lighthouse Odyssey (novel w/ adaptation potential) – drafting
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, Mr. McKay, 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 (novel) – drafting
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 (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 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 (book on writing craft) – researching
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.
Film
Unfurling Her Shadow (feature) – available
Heartache from Magnolia’s dissolving marriage turns into psychosis as a phantom haunts her sleeplessness with visions of the past.
- Quarterfinalist, Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards Diversity Initiative XII
The Woods Know How to Whisper, Too (television) – drafting
A forest fairy named Violet, stuck inside a forested plot because the land was marred with industrialized segments, relearns how to fly with her wings to reunite with her family.
Separating Fragments (short feature) – available
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 (screenplay) – drafting
An ode to those heartbroken and who still are unable to find love, despite how much the heart professes it can feel.
“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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