In The Time It Takes To Die
Born into apathy, raised in silence, and named after garbage, Fugomi never asked to exist. Surrounded by cold hands and colder hearts, his first word was the insult his parents threw at him—"trash." With no love to anchor him, Fugomi drifts through early life as a ghost in his own story, unwanted and unseen.
But beneath the neglect, a flicker of awareness grows. As he stumbles through a world that never wanted him, Fugomi begins to question the meaning of his name, his identity, and whether he is doomed to be nothing more than what others have called him. His journey is not one of grand destiny, but of painful self-reclamation—from Fugomi, the discarded, to Kaito, the one who chooses to live.
Told through fractured memories, raw inner monologues, and a lingering sense of dread, The Boy Named Trash is a haunting dive into emotional abandonment, childhood isolation, and the fragile power of choosing your own name when no one else will.
