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[@Prince of Seraphs]

To be completely frank, that's the point. The challenge is to sell me on a death in one thousand words. Use every word wisely, I don't want any filler, nothing that doesn't belong. It can and has been done with great success before and is a completely different talent than 'write as much as you can and sell me on your idea.' 

So yeah I'm super serious. Sell me in a thousand words, it requires careful thought and planning moreso than doing it in ten thousand words. 
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I totally understand the need to not have filler. My personal difficulty with the word limit is that I have to contrive, plot, and show a death scene all while involving the reader emotionally in an extremely short story with very little buildup. Other than that I agree.