The Ones Who Stay

After a year of loss, Lawrence Uno Jeon-Kim is trying to raise his ten-year-old son alone-grieving, exhausted, and barely keeping it together. When a desperate act of violence at school forces Lawrence to confront his son's buried pain, he reaches out to the last person he ever wanted to ask for help: Miguel, his estranged brother-in-law, and the man he once loved and lost.

Miguel Matthew Kim doesn't do family. He doesn't do soft. But when he steps back into Lawrence's world, he finds a child who doesn't flinch at his silence, and a man who still knows how to break his defenses.

In the quiet spaces between broken pasts and uncertain futures, the three of them begin to build something fragile, imperfect, and real.

A story about grief, redemption, and the quiet power of choosing to stay.