It is a deep, dank hole in a barren land. A rotting place full of life that thrives on death. All around are ancient things. Epics have come and passed, the global climate changed and changed again, and the things in this place can hardly be said to have stirred. Not even a breeze reaches here; not this deep. But buried far beneath the rotting fungal carpet, something shifts. A demon opens his eyes, wondering if it's time.

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Author guidance for This exercise

A short story, one paragraph at a time. The idea here being to convey as much as you can in your paragraph. Try to make the most out of the limited words.

There's no limit to the length of the paragraph as long as it exceeds the minimum 140 words and is actually only one paragraph--not several with the line breaks removed. Just one single paragraph about one single subject.

I understand dialogue might get tricky with this approach. So to simplify things and keep with the theme of the exercise: if we have a need for dialogue, let's make either a paragraph worth of it or a smaller piece at the beginning or end of the paragraph.

I'm starting in third person present, and it'd make sense to keep it that way.

updated Sep 6 '10 by Atropos