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066 creative sparks                   a collection of creative writing by EPTS  067






 THE GOOD OLD

 DAYS





    : PUMIPAT THAWEEWITAYARUT, WARIT LOJANAWANICH and CHANUT MONGKOLTHUNMAKUL
  : NATTAN  TAWORNSATIT
          his attention.                sorry face, only to find that it didn’t work
            “Is that...a BOOK?!” Tommy screamed   this time.
 “Arghhh!” screamed Tommy, who   and left him falling down a dark hole.   in excitement.   His mom started speaking “No
 fell down through a crack on the floor.   “Huh? Where  am  I?”  wondered   He  had  never  seen  a  real  book   excuse Tommy, go to your room, you’re
 He struggled through a few bumps   Tommy,  who  just  woke  up  from  an   before, but only heard of their legacies   g…”.
 before  landing  on  a  stone  floor.             unintended  slumber. “What  is  this   and myth. In Tommy’s days, books were   “No  mom,  please  no” Tommy
 Confused  in  the  chaos,  he  fell                   place?”  thought Tommy.  He  looked   considered extremely rare. He bounced   protested. “GROUNDED,  go  to  your
 unconscious.  around and began to realize that he was   up and down in delight and couldn’t   room, don’t leave until I say you can!”
 Tommy had the opportunity to take   in  some  kind  of  an  old  basement          wait to gaze his eye upon what awaited   his mom finished the sentence.
 a week off from being in the presence   bedroom.   him inside the relic he had found.  Tommy  did  as  ordered  and
 of  his “teacher”,  a  42-inch  black   From the look of the furniture and   With the arrival of his mom and the   submissively walked to his room.
 screen. It was taken away for repair   stuff, this room is probably at least a   rescue robot, he was lifted out of the   However, he was glad he managed to
 after a major bug was discovered in its   few centuries old, Tommy thought.   hole he had fallen in.   keep the precious book hidden from his
 science section.   “Well...never mind, my mom will be   “WHAT  WERE  YOU  THINKING       mom’s sight. He knew it would have
 Due to the absence of his teacher,   here with some help anyway if I press   TOMMY!?  Why would you wandered into   been confiscated by his mom if she had
 Tommy  decided  to  go  around  and        this button on my wrist,” Tommy said   a deserted place like this?” Tommy’s   spotted it.
 explore his neighborhood a bit. He found   to himself while looking at his personal   mom yelled at him furiously.  “Let’s see what lurks inside this
 an old-looking house and somehow   emergency button. Tommy pressed the    “I’m so sorry mom, I was only       book”, Tommy thought to himself.
 found it somewhat alluring. He decided   button and waited for the arrival of his   going to take a quick look at the place   Tommy was a bit surprised to
 to take a peek at the house. It was then   probably-furious mom. However, one   out  of  curiosity”,  Tommy  replied   discover that the book he was holding
 when the floor beneath him cracked   thing in the corner of the room caught   meekly with an old forever-reliable   was, in fact, a diary, a journal people
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