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110 creative sparks a collection of creative writing by EPTS 111

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THE DOOR

: PASSAWEE CHEVASATH : NATTAN TAWORNSATIT

Soft snow fell steadily and solemnly fallen from treetops struggling to prevail
from the sky – a vehement emptiness, the coming of winter. But just when it
still, and devoid of colour – like weight- turned its head to presume ameliorating
less dandelions floating through time, its thirst – its shiny black eyes glaring
its presence made discernable only by back at it from the river, its jagged
the contrasting black of the blanket of antlers rippled by subtle waves – the
trees that stood below. Silence swept snow deer could sense a slight
through the massive forest, seeping its movement from behind. It rotated its
way swiftly between the spaces of tall neck once again, scrutinizing at the
tree sentinels, topped partly with white. gapes amid the rocks and the trunks,
The whole landscape was deafeningly staying still, despite the desultory
quiet (it was as if the woods and the beating of the heart flooded with
towering cliffs and hidden caves were trepidation, and treaded its hooves
awed by the greatness of the sky slowly, preparing for escape. stillness of the forest, ready to detect into its consciousness and, without a
above); its tranquillity deadened here It felt as if everything had stopped any motion that might verify the second hesitation, ran for its life, in the
only by the sound of the languid river moving, and for a moment the deer presence of the enemy, suddenly direction homogeneous to that of the
and the offbeat footsteps of a snow ceased to sense the cold touch of the drifted into a trance. flowing river.
deer. flakes settling on its brunette fur. Its That was when the snow deer saw Different shades of mahogany
At first it thought the source of the mind, focusing on the scenery before the wolf, an anomalous movement brown tree trunks blurred and mingled
sound was the rustle of shed leaves, it, absorbed by the placidity and the behind one of the rocks. The deer woke into one as the deer raced its way