August 12, 2008

• [short] Writing Assignment #7

  Assignment #7: Write an amazing reflection [a paragraph] using third person.

  He stared out at the desolation before him and knew the stench of despair. It was just too much.
  He was all alone. Nobody else was coming. Nobody else cared. And who
  was he after all? Neither prince, nor general, nor soldier, nor wizard.
  Who was he to think he could stand before the torrent that was coming
  and hold it off? And for a moment he nearly gave up. But then he
  remembered the words he’d been hearing all his life. You can’t save everyone. He tensed. It’s not your responsibility to save the world.  He grimaced. Sometimes you have to learn to let go. 
  His fist clenched around the ring a rage building up within him.
  Loridai’s ring. Loridai who had been the last victim of their senseless
  indifference. Of his indifference. No! He wasn’t much and he knew full well chances were good he wouldn’t be able to help anyone. But he’d be damned before he just let go again.

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