The Queen of Tears by Chris Mckinney

Author:Chris Mckinney
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Soho Press
Published: 2009-01-08T16:00:00+00:00

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Their very private wedding followed three months later. The courtship consisted of Korean language lessons, and the fact that Henry was such a quick learner was one of the main reasons that Soong fell in love with him. Actually, Soong knew that this was only a small part of it. Soong was learning about the dynamics of love. It seemed to her that this type of love was almost like the Big Bang. Everything, like mass, temperature, the presence of key elements, and time, had to happen exactly how it did in order for this thing to exist. It wasn’t so much that if one of these things didn’t happen, it would’ve been dead rocks floating in space. It was more like these things were the things in Henry, and every aspect of him seemed perfect to her, even his imperfections. He was unabashedly human. He was never trying to trick her into believing that he was anything more than this. Though Soong often tried to articulate this love in her head, she was constantly making amendments and retractions. So finally she came to the conclusion that when he was around she felt very happy, and when he was not around, she was miserable. Maybe it was that simple.

Disaster followed the day of her wedding. Someone had done a close investigation of Soong’s past and found out that she was not a distant relative of the late and great film producer Park Dong Jin. The papers released a story, saying that not only was Soong a peasant girl but a peasant girl with possible Japanese ancestry. It had been discovered that her mother was a comfort woman during the Japanese occupation. The scandal was not that she was what she was, the scandal was rooted in the attempted deception. Who does not despise a person caught in a lie?

In a more minor story that day, it was discovered that an unidentified American Army captain was running a black market. He was selling goods to the Communist North. The Korean government demanded that he leave South Korea forever.

Soong knew that Moon Chung Han’s anger would be fierce, but she did not imagine this. That such a powerful man could act like such a child scared her, not only for herself, but also for her country. She dropped the paper in front of Henry, who was sipping his coffee and looking out of the window of her house, the same great house which was once Dong Jin’s. He seemed to be admiring the green mountain. He looked down at the paper and smiled. “It would take me hours figure out what this says.” He paused. “But I see the picture of you. You look beautiful.”

She found his ignorance charming. She smiled despite herself. “You do not understand. We are ruined.”

He picked up the paper and squinted at it. “What you mean?”

She sighed. “It’s Chung Han. He has ruined us. He says you run a black market. They will make you go back to America.

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