Module C – Creative Writing (Nam Le)

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” We live most intensely while we are falling – a truth that wrings the heart!”

Using the above statement as a stimulus, write the epiphany of an imaginative text. Rage built inside of me with an intensity to match the gasoline drum that my father stood over, its blaze fuelled by my manuscript. The taste of acid in my mouth formed into words that I spat at him as years” worth of suppressed trauma boiled to the surface. He said nothing.

I turned to the river. The water had frozen perfectly, endless and glassy. Inside the ice appeared to be a perfect world, still and undisturbed by heat. Part of me wanted to step into the river, to fall into that world and forget, but the reflection of my face on the surface stopped me. I looked just like my father.