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Stranger Than Fiction [1]

Creative Nonfiction [2]
1.25.18

In 2014, the oldest eel in the world passed away. Ale the eel was 155 years old and had been living in a well in a small fishing town in Sweden, thrown in the well by a young boy when eels were used to keep a house’s water supply clean from insects. That statement may sound like the premise of a fable, or perhaps the beginning of a joke, but in fact it is a true story [3]. Reality abounds with such surprises. This week, seek out a bizarre fact from the news or a historical document and try using it as the starting point for an essay.


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[1] https://www.pw.org/content/stranger_than_fiction [2] https://www.pw.org/genre/creativenonfiction [3] http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/world-oldest-eel-dies-aged-155-sweden-mourns-article-1.1897740