(What If? Exercise: Read the description here.)
The wind carried the little seeds into a gray field.
There they landed, in the middle of the grass.
Days and nights of sun and rain passed.
Until at last, the first sprouts appeared.
One by one, bright flowers blossomed.
Soon, the field was alive.
Grays turned to colors.
A beautiful sight.
Magical field.
This piece is based on What If? Exercise 93: “Ten to One”. The exercise is to write a 55-word story in which the first sentence has ten words, the second has nine, etc., until the last sentence has only one word. The objective is to show that precision and thrift in writing can produce surprisingly powerful results. I hope you enjoy what I’ve written. Thanks for reading!
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