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Fish Out of Water [1]

Fiction [2]
2.10.16

A black bear [3] wanders into a backyard in Florida and tries out lounging in a hammock. A sloth [4] is found stranded on a highway in Ecuador, clinging to a guardrail for dear life, and is rescued by transportation officials. A rabbit [5] gets catapulted up onto a roof during a windy storm in Northern Ireland and is saved by firefighters. Write a scene in which a character—human or animal—finds himself in a situation where he is a fish out of water. Does he explore the new and foreign environment surrounding him, or is he in need of rescue?


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/fish_out_of_water_0 [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/fiction [3] http://abcnews.go.com/US/florida-black-bear-takes-break-rests-hammock/story?id=23940797 [4] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/lost-sloth-ecuador_us_56a5b956e4b0404eb8f2172b [5] http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-35440440