Broken Summer

by Jung-Myung Lee

“Now, I think this is the perfect moment and place. This moment belongs to us and we belong to this space. It’s a perfect day.” Even before he finished speaking, he realized the error hidden in his words: the fact that a perfect moment is never perceptible and disappears as soon as it is noticed.

It was only now his wife had disappeared that he realized he knew nothing about her.

Had her own life faded away because she was bearing his life on her back like a scraggy mule?

“This is Jisoo, our eldest daughter. She’s a first-year in high school, so she’s the same age as Hanjo. We also have a younger daughter, Haeri.”

Hidden power structures are more severe and lethal than visible hierarchies.

No matter how happy the moment, it always passes, but if you can store it in your memory, it remains yours forever.

Murder is not a matter of unusual people in unusual situations, but an act by ordinary people in everyday life.

He was scared and excited that even after the things that had sustained his life were shattered, he had the ability to imagine beauty inside himself and the desire to create it.

He was one of those people who hid his pain because he didn’t believe he would be comforted if he showed his wounds.