Fifty Five Words

This week’s 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 9, and so on, until the final sentence is just one word. Here’s what I did:
 

Vengeance

I finally found the vile creature that took my son.
Her coffin—I lay open under the pale moonlight.
Her serene countenance belies the pitiless temptress within.
Her youthful visage hides centuries of murder.
North winds breathe a cold gale.
But I tremble in rage.
This wooden dagger unleashed.
My grip tightens.
No hesitation.

Death.