The Switch English Translation
에클레시아(Yun Eunhe) One summer night. when the stars scattered bright across the sky, I was receiving the blows of my mother's switch. I was not so yong then, yet I cannot remember why - only my mother's shout remains, sharp and straight as her nature. when I was very small, even the sight of the switch made me tremble, as though the pain had already arrived - but as I grew, even while the blows fell, at some point I stopped running away. The stars of the night sky were clearer than glass, and the handful of houses made a village - perhaps because she had longed for a son late in life and bore me as her youngest - from behind, her voice rose louder still. Perhaps because her heart ached even as she raised the switch - why do you just stand there taking it, why won't you at least run away? That was what she said. And that was the heart of a parent. The wrist that had to lift the switch. The heart that had to lift it too. Now that my parents are old, if the switch were raised a...