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-Koh Lanta Creative Writing Group
+**Koh Lanta Creative Writing Group**
 ====== 2024/2025 Season ======
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 The toaster was on the fritz again. It had the equivalent of catching a cold in the world of appliances. Normally a sick appliance would crawl into the spacious oven where there were nursing beds and silverware attended to your every need. The cold happened often enough that toaster wanted a more permanent solution. It had been said that water heater was more wise and powerful than any other appliance, though its lair was far away and dangerous.
-Toaster packed a bag.
+Toaster packed a bag and set out to reach the basement. Take me with you, the salt shaker said. My glass is chipped and my cap is rusty. So salt shaker rode on top of the toaster while toaster made a slow waddling movement across the counter.
+They climbed down a string of lights to the ground. They moved towards the basement stairwell when salt shaker screeched and said pepper! I see you behind the refridgerator! I thought you were gone forever! So salt shaker left toaster to be with pepper shaker. Toaster made it down the first step to the basement, motivated by the idea that water heater might have a real cure.
+On the third step toaster started to loose a good grip on the floor and thought he might go tumbling down the stairs when at the last second both salt shaker and pepper grabbed toaster and saved him. They made it to the bottom and water heater had beer and snacks waiting for them.
+==== Purple Sunset Jellyfish ====
+Suk swung the screaming 1954 VW Beattle engine hard to the left to turn into the set of docks that held up the homes of 30 or so Thai families. Suk had been out on the water all day fishing with three other men. The fish hold was half full when the sun started to set. The water shimmered a purple hue interrupted by the occasional large jellyfish. Suk's father talked about how the daily catch was so much larger 20 years ago. He wonedered what the youngest village members would do for a livinc. Half their teenagers already spend summers in Bangkok, working in shopping malls or driving tuktuks.
+Suk lifted fish from the hold into large buckets on the dock, with people waiting to gut and clean the fish.
+Suk made 20 baht per kilo of fish. He was better than most about saving and had plans to buy a boat of his own. His girlfriend lived in the nearest town, 2 km away, but he had little free time. Suk was happiest on the water, surrounded by immense beauty and relative isolation. It seemed that VW engine could run forever. He wondered if the Germans who made it could imagine what it is doing for him now.
 ====== 2023/2024 Season ======