Writing Exercise

Description of the "Jar of Tang" story, taken from the Turkey City Lexicon:

"For you see, we are all living in a jar of Tang!"

A story contrived so that the author can spring a silly surprise about its setting. Mainstay of the old Twilight Zone TV show. An entire pointless story contrived so the author can cry "Fooled you!" For instance, the story takes place in a desert of coarse orange sand surrounded by an impenetrable vitrine barrier; surprise! our heroes are microbes in a jar of Tang...