Here is a 175-word opening scene for a murder mystery with 35 sentences of exactly 5 words each: The night was cold, dark. John walked quickly down the street. He pulled his coat tighter against the wind. At the corner he stopped suddenly. There in the lamplight lay a body. John rushed over and knelt down. It was a woman, stabbed, bleeding badly. Desperately he felt for a pulse but found none. She was dead. He looked around but saw no one. Who could do such a thing? Gently he closed the woman's staring eyes. Sirens approached as he stood up. The police would be here soon. He knew he should stay but he was scared. They might accuse him, he thought. So quietly John slipped into the darkness. He hurried away, heart pounding with fear. John hoped the killer would be caught. But he knew it was unlikely. The streets were dangerous at night. Anyone could be a victim. Like the poor woman left alone, dying in pain on the cold, harsh concrete under the lamp's faint glow.