Challenge
Write the most heartbreaking, saddest short story you can come up with in a single paragraph (3-6 sentences). 20 coins to the one that can make me cry.
A thousand
I have seen the willow trees grow old, their swooping branches kissing the ground before they are ripped apart and buried beneath concrete.
I have watched the migrating whales moan and cry as they are speared, and cut, and gouged from the oceans, their last song echoes of grief.
I have stood by as my children grow and live and die, their hands grasping mine as they draw final breath.
I cannot tell them that I have lived a thousand lives, been a thousand people, loved a thousand souls, buried a thousand children.
For I am immortal, and time withers away all that I have.
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