First chapter First Paragraph Tuesday Intros: Forgotten Reflections A War Story by Young-Im Lee

First Chapter ~ First Paragraph Tuesday Intros, now hosted by Vicki at I'd Rather Be At The Beach, where bloggers post the first paragraph(s) of a book they are currently reading or planning to read sometime soon.

Originally I either intended to begin The Master and the Maid by Laura Libricz or Run Me To Earth by Paul Yoon. Instead I'll be starting Forgotten Reflections by Young-Im Lee simply because I finished up The Wife Between Us by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, today is someone's birthday and the book has the name of my first love. I hope you'll enjoy this week's selection. 

Part I

Prologue

"Do you believe our time will ever come?" The old lady said, dying all alone in an empty hospice room, overlooking the bright night lights of Seoul. 

She was not alone, no. She was in the city that never sleeps where a thousand lights stood witness to her passing with eyes that never blinked. They stood at an arm's length away, so close yet so far. She had been searching for years, no decades even, to look into those warm dark brown eyes she remembered so clearly the closer she came to death. 

Mother. She said to herself. Father. She was beneath the evergreen tree whose branches stood guard of their graves. I'm coming...An incense-like scent wafted into the room, a mixture of medicine, antiseptic and dying flowers. 

Yeong-Hoon, she called. 

There was nothing there but an old cracked guitar, an empty sofa and a TV that incessantly told her she did not belong in this world anymore. 

A blinding light made it hard for her to see. She knew he would never come back for her. She knew...she knew. She held on to that fact for as long as her train of thought would last. She had proof for when she would forget. 

Where was it again? She had hidden it somewhere safe, somewhere easily accessible.

A confetti of bleached white paper poured so heavily she thought she might drown in it. A tiger roared somewhere, and the world was crumbling around her. Had the war begun again? 

What have you guys been reading or planning to read?