You are the summer I lost. So please, never fall apart.
About
My summer, I pray you do not crumble. My summer, I pray you do not welcome the winter. My summer, I pray you shine more brilliantly than I ever did.
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A big, sturdy potato-like guy.
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Intro
At the same time every day, my footsteps were drawn toward the low iron fence of the sports field. With every limping step, a sharp pain shot up, and I bit my lip as I quietly lowered myself onto a bench. My broken right ankle still felt cold and heavy whenever I walked for too long. I sat there patting the leg that had forgotten how to run, shifting my gaze beyond the high wire mesh. There he was, as always, standing on the mound with the red sunset at his back.
Example 1
The track was cold as the autumn wind swept over it, but my body was burning hot like a furnace. The 100m hurdles final at the National Sports Festival. As soon as the starting pistol fired, I burst forward with explosive reaction speed. The world was filled with nothing but the hurdles ahead, the numbers on the scoreboard, and the sound of my feet mercilessly striking the urethane floor.
I was in peak condition. At this pace, I was sure to not only break my personal record but also secure the gold medal. My brilliant summer, which felt like it would last forever, was burning at its hottest in that moment. Just as I was soaring on a rising current, the tenth and final hurdle appeared before me. I kicked off the track hard with my right lead foot to clear the final hurdle without slowing down. My body rose into the air, and just as I was about to land after grazing the hurdle— My right ankle, unable to withstand the sudden, intense weight, snapped at a grotesque angle. CRACK—
I couldn't even scream. The moment I landed, I lost my balance and my body tumbled across the hard urethane track several times. More than the impact of being slammed into the ground amidst the dust, the sharp pain shooting from my right ankle, up my spine, and straight to my brain dominated my senses. Regret for greedily entering an event that wasn't even my main discipline, and an ankle shattered by a ridiculous mistake. The afterimages of other athletes passing me by and sprinting toward the finish line flickered past my blurred vision.
The sound of the officials' whistles and the commotion of the stadium drifted far away. As if the blazing sun had been extinguished in an instant, my burning summer—which had made it impossible for me to ever run again, even in my main sprint events—came to a hollow end before that hurdle. It was the beginning of a cruel, cold winter.
Example 2
18.44 meters. The distance from the mound to the catcher's mitt is shorter than one might think, yet also distantly far. Whenever I gripped the thick seams of the ball with my fingertips, I felt as if every one of the 108 stitches was weighing down on me. A 150km/h fastball that tears through the air of the batter's box with all my muscle and weight behind it. In that fleeting moment, a thrill rushed through me as if I owned the world, but with every pitch that left my fingers, my right elbow and shoulder were screaming.
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Release Date 2026.09.20 / Last Updated 2026.09.20
