After the Monsoon, One Shoe Appeared in the Yard. It Was Still Wet.
A mysterious shoe found in the yard after rain begins to speak, revealing an impossible transformation.
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Read the Korean original →
A shoe soaked through, a lonely pair. Why do you weep so sadly, having lost your match? I recited softly to the shoe.
Then the shoe answered back. "Please don't look at me, and move me to the shade."
Bewildered as I was, I moved the shoe to a sunny spot.
In that instant, the shoe began slowly rooting itself into the earth.
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