“OH NO IT’S THE MONSTER!!” cries the generic orange smiley face as it unsuccessfully tries to escape the jaws of the hungry beast. Next it goes after the blue and pink smilies. They try to run. The pink smiley trips over a pile of apple flavored nuggets and falls subject to the beast’s stomach. The blue smiley looks back sympathetically, but in this situation, it’s every smiley for itself. A purple smiley with a bite taken out of it pulls the blue smiley down behind a cookie. “What are you doing?! The monster will see you!” It whispers, but the whispers are too loud. The hungry beast swoops down with one easy swipe and eats both smiles and then the cookie. Is there no one who can save this delicious town? Is there not a hero who can rescue this edible population…?
Of course not. They’re fruit snacks; they’re made to be eaten. Whoever said not to play with your food was obviously wrong and has never had the joy of eating these healthy gummy things.
I like the personification of the fruit snacks. Work like that can open really great opportunities to write about how and why humans like to give inanimate objects sentient behaviors.
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