Written by SON Sungil / Picture by Yeon-du

Snail

SON Sungil

Snails are slow because they're at home

They don't have to rush to buy a house

They say if you move slowly, you see things that you miss

panting under the weight of waste paper

With the grandmother's lively breathing,

Reflected by the sun, shining brightly

Of the heavy sweat from the workers

And a crack over there

On the veranda of the apartment building,

He smiles at himself and saying hello

To the laundry, beautiful like a bunch of flowers

Then, the crying sound

Of touching cries 

That is when you fee alive.

Now I go home

Bubble, bubbling, bubbling

Snails that follow the sweet bean paste soup sound

One by one, the star lights up and follows

It’s like a kid chasing a disinfectant truck

SON Sungil

Male, Brain Lesion Disorder

Korea Award for Excellence in Literature for the Disabled (simultaneous, fairy tale)

Standing in the Busan Catholic Literature Contest (2014)

Simultaneously winning the "Children's Literature" Literature Award (2017)

2020  KUSangSotdae  Literature Award Grand Prize

“I am a boy who counts the stars”

Nursery Rhymes “Cotton Candy Blanket”

A number of literary magazines other than the fairy tale collection "Flying Star" released