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On the Road [1]

Fiction [2]
2.8.17

Last month, hundreds of thousands of red Skittles [3] were found on a highway road in Wisconsin, having spilled from a truck transporting the candy for integration into cattle feed. Write a short story that starts with a similarly striking image of something highly unusual found on a road. As the story progresses, continue escalating the mystery and oddity of the situation. Does the story end with a satisfactory resolution, or does it leave the reader with lingering questions?


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/on_the_road_1 [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/fiction [3] http://www.sciencealert.com/us-farmers-have-been-caught-feeding-red-skittles-to-their-cattle