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Paul Yoon Reads “Valley of the Moon”

The New Yorker: The Writer's Voice - New Fiction from The New Yorker

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The Shadow Passed Over Tongsu

One day while feeding the animals Tongsu felt a shadow pass over him. He was about to return to the animals when he spotted down in the valley Unsik who was leading a man toward the house. Even from a distance Tongsu knew that the man was not from here. When the stranger made it to the house he wiped his brow with his handkerchief, looked all around him and said, time never reached here if I wanted to hide it would be here.

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