Me! write the first paragraph of a short story. establish the setting of your story using imagery. the reader should be able to clearly visualize the setting of your story.

say it was a dark and gloomy night. your parents believe you where old enough to stay home while they go to see a movie. you are sitting on your couch watchin Netflix. you hear a thump in the kitchen and stop to think if maybe your parents are home. you get up and walk towards the kitchen and in the door way you see a big shadowy figure standing in the door way...

hopes this helps :)

Slate pressed his forehead against the cold, unforgiving surface of the glass. He watched everything streak across his field of vision as the bus trundled its way across the emptiness. The road was nothing more than a harsh black line  that vanished into the distance against a sheet of white paper. On either sides of it was the dry, sizzling expanse baked by the mid-afternoon sun. It hovered in the sky and glared down accusingly at the boy. Needles of light forked out from amid the glowing mass, fighting a losing battle to reclaim space in the sky, which was obscured by a sepia haze. So this was what the Earth had become. There was nothing here except a sea of memories forever consigned to the void. There was nowhere to go but forward. And that's where he was going right now. Forward. The only place he had left to go. Forward. The only home he'd ever known. Forward. Until he couldn't go anymore.

delfino 2: diez in the desert analysis: the story, delfino 2: diez in the desert was really about not giving up! that is basically the theme of the story, and also being more prepared. the plot of the story was about diez, the main character, traveling through the harsh desert with other immigrants. also, that keeping the group alive and getting them to their final destination. the setting of the story took place in mexico in the harsh desert.