A Creative Writing Exercise in exactly fifty five words

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This writing exercise is deceptively simple, yet challenging. The task is to write a short-short story with exactly 10 sentences, and ONLY ten sentences. The first sentence must contain exactly 10 words, the next sentence 9 words, the next sentence 8 words and so on, until the final sentence is just one word. Here’s an example: Woody’s War I cannot kill the black cat in the back yard. He stalks, and struts, and flaunts his fat tail. I’ve seen his brazen paw-marks on the car. I know he fouls each growing bush. I dream red dreams of vengeance. Tail high, taunting, he passes. I’m helpless, he knows. My fury’s pent. The screen--! Meow.