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A Whale of a Tale [1]

Fiction [2]
6.7.17

The life-size blue whale model displayed at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City—nearly one hundred feet long and over twenty thousand pounds—recently had its annual cleaning. Write a short story with a scene in the museum during this two-day long process, perhaps describing some of the images [3] taken of the huge animal model being vacuumed by the exhibition maintenance manager in a cherry picker. Does this scene act as a backdrop to the main drama of the story, or have metaphorical significance? Are your characters directly impacted or involved with the unusual cleaning process?


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/a_whale_of_a_tale [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/fiction [3] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/arts/design/thar-she-glows-how-the-natural-history-museum-cleans-its-blue-whale.html