Ingredients 5 - "Dust"

As I'm sure you picked up when you (hopefully) read Remnants 12 before "Dust," one of the main goals I had in mind when writing "Dust" was keeping it short. I even went through the painstakingly painstaking trouble of typing it up in Word so I could keep a word count. As I'd hoped, I was able to write it in exactly one hundred words.

When I wrote "Dust," I didn't really plan much; I just wrote what came to mind after getting a general concept. Unlike my usual style, this short had a bunch of shorter sentences and phrases; I plucked words to try to convey the most meaning in as little as possible. I feel like having short sentences makes them seem more powerful, just because of the level of definition they reach by being so simple.

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See? Long sentences are long.

Anyway, this story was probably brought to you in part by the fact that there is a crapton of snow outside. On the night before last, when it was still snowing and there were strong winds, gusts were actually sweeping snow off roofs and trees. It looked like dust (get it?). So I wrote the first sentence with that snow (probably) in mind, and then my brain twisted it into a post-apocalyptic world where a dude dies.