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Shelf Life [1]

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7.6.16

A high school in Maine recently celebrated the forty-year anniversary of a Twinkie [3] that has been on display on campus, still intact, since 1976, when a science teacher unwrapped one of the snack cakes and set it out for a spontaneous lesson on chemistry, food additives, and decomposition. Write a short story in which your main character makes a comparably spontaneous decision or gesture, and then fast-forward forty years later to reveal how that seemingly small action becomes far-reaching, or perhaps even life-changing.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/shelf_life [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/fiction [3] https://bangordailynews.com/2016/06/20/news/hancock/40-years-later-twinkie-remains-intact-at-maine-school