Stories from the Late Night Show

"Stories from the Late Night Show" is the first chapter in *With Pearl and Ruby Glowing: Part 4*.

## Plot

On *Late Night with Bev*, show host Bev Gilbert has invited several performers and protestors to speak about their experiences with sexual abuse.

### Morning Path and Path of Ambition

Jee-Do and Jo-Do Go were born in North Korea and are defectors. Jee was a child actor for propaganda while Jo was born deaf and was hidden by his family since North Korean society frowned upon disabilities. The brothers' cousin, Seon-do Go, reported the family, but allowed them to stay out of trouble and let Jee continue acting if Jee went to a "school for the deaf". The school was actually abusive, and Jee later helped Jo escape so they could get out of North Korea. In the present, they are making a cartoon called *Goseumdochiwa Dalamjwi* that shows how bad North Korea is.

### Corn Poppy and True Image

Shaghayegh Cheraghi, aka Savannah, came to America from Iran at age nine. In 8th grade, Shere Khan groomed and raped her, resulting in her first daughter Cyra. A few years later, 9/11 happened and Savannah was accused of being involved because she's Muslim and Middle-Eastern, so the US government took Cyra away and sent Savannah to Guantanamo Bay to be questioned. She was tortured repeatedly and also raped, so she got pregnant again with her second daughter Veronica, who was born seven months after her release. Savannah became a pop singer and has collaborated with her daughters on one of her albums.

### Hazel and Harmony

Ela Belkova and Kuzma Belkov are dancers who used their performances to protest for human rights since public gatherings for protests were illegal in Kyrgyzstan. The police raided one of their performances and Kuzma was detained for two years while being raped. Ela eventually slept with an ambassador from North Korea to help get him freed. Someone later sent Kuzma a video of his rape and threatened to release it if he and Ela didn't stop protesting, but he told them to go ahead since it just proved that the government was wrong.

### Of The Lord

Cyriaque Barafu grew up in Congo and his feet were infested with Chigoe Fleas. His village was extremely religious and thought he was being possessed, so they beat and raped him to cure him. Irwin Twahirwa, a traveling doctor, came by and convinced them to let him take Cyriaque to a hospital, where his feet were amputated and replaced with prosthetics. He was inspired to become an ice skater when he saw some Olympic ice dancers on television, and now he advocates for people to help disabled kids and has been selected for the Olympics.

### Beautiful

Bella Flamenco is Miccosukee and grew up on a reservation in Florida. White men would come onto the reservation to rape girls, but loopholes meant that they couldn't prosecute outsiders. One man targeted Bella specifically until he went missing, but other men are still raping other girls. Bella was later blacklisted from being a ballerina because of her activism, so now she's founding a dance school for Native American girls.

### Pleiades

Parveen Patel is a hijra actress from India that advocates for the LGBT+ community and women's rights. During one protest, a man pulled her off the stage and assaulted her. Parveen tried to go to the cops, but they threatened to charge her with "homosexual activities" if she didn't stop pursuing the issue, so she instead moved on with her life.

### ศึก

Yut Plangklang, the announcer for the show, was caught on camera yelling at his sons' principal and school security guard because the guard pointed a gun at Milo for riding around the gym with a unicycle while livestreaming it and the principal suspended him and Oscar. He cursed them out in Thai, threatened to have sex with their wives, and claimed he wasn't afraid to go back to jail since he could Muay Thai his way out of there like he did in Klong Prem. Yut was forced to apologize on air to keep his job, but does it sarcastically since his anger was understandable.

### Bright Reflection and Wisdom

Manny Mouser, who is Bev's field reporter, and his wife Sonia discuss Manny's upcoming book *A Flag Without Yellow*, which details his and others' experiences in the Brothers' Home in Busan. He also went to North Korea under a Russian alias, but someone recognized him and he was imprisoned while being forced to make movies. Manny helped Jo-Do escape and also helped a little girl, who is his and Sonia's adopted daughter named Aeji, escape too, but the guards caught them and raped Manny. The footage of this wasn't edited out of the clips for the show, causing Manny to be retraumatized when it played.