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016 creative sparks                                                                                    a collection of creative writing by EPTS  017





                                                                                    unwanted land below, but gravity pulls   drop of water, who has never seen this
                                                                                    him down. The bond of love is weaker   before. “I want to travel in the canal
                                                                                    than the pull of gravity.     forever! So I can see new things I have
                                                                                       The drop of water locks his mind,   never seen before. I wish my mother
                                                                                    closes his eyes until he doesn’t feel the   were here so she could teach me what
          A DROP OF                                                                 environment around him. He misses   they were!” the drop of water shouts
                                                                                    seeing the combination of the beautiful
                                                                                                                  out carelessly underwater. He spends
                                                                                    and the cruel of the world for seconds.
                                                                                                                  all of his energy on swiftly swimming
          THE USELESS                                                               He comes to when he touches a strange   with new friends and diving up and
                                                                                                                  down in the canal until he falls asleep.
                                                                                    surface and finds that he is moving
                                                                                    whirly among other drops of water that   He wakes up later when he hears a
                                                                                    look very similar to each other. He   strange sound above his head. It is
              : SEK SANGRATKANJANASIN    : NATTAN TAWORNSATIT                       compounds his mind and memory and   louder than a lion’s roar or anything he
                                                                                    asks, “Is this a dream? Where am I?”   has heard before. Its yellow light is
             What a drop of water wants to say:   things and like all of us I       to the others drops around him. But no   brighter and more frightful than what his
             “Mum,  can  we  stay  like  this            have my job and duty to do,   one replies to him.        mother called “firework”. And he finds
          forever?” a drop of water asks his    just like me and you my                Everyone is moving fast and seems   himself between the waves above and
          mother quizzically.                   sweetheart.” His mother             to be happy for a reason that he doesn’t   the colorful coral below, and he realizes
             “Oh! My little sweetheart. I never   explains to her son in an         know. “You don’t know what is a canal?   that he isn’t in the canal anymore.
          want you to leave me, but it seems to   easily understandable way.        Stop trying to be an innocent!” Someone   “Is there anyone trying to kill me?
          be impossible.” a big and shady tree     The drop of water is             shouts from an unidentified direction.   Please stop roaring up above, it’s noisy!
          teaches her son.                      never prepared for the time            The drop of water doesn’t know   And your light too. It’s painful to my
             “Has everyone been born to be   he must leave his mother. After today,   how to say thank-you back, in which   eyes!”  After  he  stops,  suddenly
          separate from each other? Why is the   he is prepared to stay with his mum   direction so he tries to push through the   something brings him up to the sky
          world so cruel to us?” He complains   who fills with sadness and the feeling   crowds to the surface above. He sees   higher  and  higher,  spinning  around
          about the truth of the world.  of missing her son, so he doesn’t want     the  sunshine  through  the  fresh  air,   faster than a merry-go-round. He sees
             His mother pities the purity of her   to move or do anything. He doesn’t want   hears the sound of birds more than he   things  down  below  clearly  that  he
          son, “No, no, don’t think like that, my   to move. He doesn’t want to drop from   heard when he stayed with his mother.   is heading to the land full of human
          sweetheart. I have been standing here   a pleasantly warm and cherished leaf   Strange looking living things under the   architectures and few trees.
          for decades. I have seen many living   of  his  mother  to  an  unknown  and         canal are colorful and attractive to the   Few minutes later he hears people
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