Literature
Best Before
Milk carton TF story (7340 words)
[DEVIATION]
1
Josh had been looking forward to the school trip ever since his teacher had announced it a couple of weeks earlier. The upcoming excursion to a paper mill had taken on a life of its own inside the imagination of the fourteen-year-old boy, filling his mind with visions of conveyor belts, production lines, and even industrial robots. The fact that the place manufactured mostly just ordinary cardboard packaging hadn't made things any less exciting.
But now that he was finally there, shuffling his feet alongside his classmates while listening to the droning, monotonous voice of the tour guide, excitement was the last thing he was feeling.
"...and over here, we can see how the tips of the flutes of the corrugated medium have been applied with a starch adhesive," the guide explained. "The inner liner is then bonded to one side of the flutes, and the outer liner is bonded to the other side in order to create a single-faced sheet of