The parasites arrived with the summer floods.

“You think you aimed them. But they were always aiming you.”

That night, the parasites came for them anyway.

Waiting for the next family to make a deal. If you meant a about a real place called "Penny Park" with parasitic infestations (ecological, social, or financial), please clarify the location or context, and I’ll gladly provide that instead.

Their father wanted to burn the lagoon. Their mother wanted to leave. But Seo-jun saw opportunity. Mr. Park had been complaining about the smell from his penthouse. He threatened to bulldoze the park entirely, which meant the family would lose their shed, their shelter, their only piece of the city.

Seo-jun had been cleaning the park’s public restrooms for eleven months. His family—mother, father, younger sister—lived in a half-sunken maintenance shed behind the defunct carousel. They had no rent, no utilities, and no escape. But they had an arrangement with Mr. Park, the park’s absentee owner, who lived in a glass high-rise overlooking the river. Mr. Park paid Seo-jun’s father a pittance to keep squatters out. In return, the family pretended they didn’t exist.

So Seo-jun made a deal with the parasites.