Creative Writing Exercise # 1: Write the first 250 words of a short story, but write them all in one sentence. make sure it is grammatically correct and makes sense.

A small white flag waved, breaking the silence that had been present for what had seemed like years; moving as the grass rippled from the warmth of the summer breeze that had just blown in, or as the trees waved their smallest branches in a salute to anyone who cared enough to look up, or as the wings of the butterfly that had just landed on the nose of a fallen comrade: a person who had a family, who had friends, who had a life to live for, plenty of things to say, to do, reasons for his heart to keep beating, for his blood to keep flowing, for his eyes to continue to have their depth and not stare aimlessly up into space, at something that no one could see and live to tell the tale about, something that made people wonder about what happened after death, after one had already passed on into the next life, when they were gone but still right in front of you; and yet, the white flag was waving, turning everything that this comrade had done equal nothing, because, as it so happened, the white flag was waving because of the wind that was rippling through it was coming from the east, from his homeland, from the hands of his supervisor, the one who had told him that he was not allowed to give up the fight lest he be 

forever labeled as the cause of the war that was plaguing his nation.