Sample Translations
Hyo Jung Ryu
Please, let us go E ng l i s h
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Please, let us go (제발 우리 좀 보내줘) Association of young authors Publishing corp. / 3 p. For further information, please visit: http://library.klti.or.kr/node/772
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Please, let us go Written by Ryu Hyo Jung
Sob, Sob. Rustle, rustle. Mumble, mumble.
Mumble, grumble, mumble.
Don’t go, please! Please, listen to us, please.
Huff! Huff! Gasp, gasp Sigh Sigh Ah, a-h, Hi?
We are the monsters of your imagination. We are not scary monsters, not at all.
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I am a little bit ashamed to say this… but honestly… We are really scared of your imagination. You cannot even imagine how scared we are. What on earth have I ever done to you? 2
You really don’t know what you do to us? Every night, you think of us when we have to go home.
We are heading home. Of course, we walk on tiptoe not to disturb your sleep. But, your imagination runs after us with frightening speed and ties us up even though we have to be home before midnight.
Your imagination has become more and more clever and tied us up so tightly that now it is impossible for us to free ourselves without your help even though our mom and dad hate it when we do not come back home until after midnight.
Yesterday, the sun even rose before your imagination would let us go. If you had only let at least one of us go home, our mom and dad would not have had to worry so all night and we would not have been yelled at that badly.
Roarrrrrrrrrr!
If we are late again tonight, we will get hung upside down as punishment until the moon rises tomorrow night. So, please let us go.
I did not know about that. Now, I am not scared of you at all but I do not know how to let you go, whew---
Whew‌Whew‌
Good night, monsters of my imagination. Thank you, good night and sweet dream, and please do not dream about us.
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