Tries this one on for size:

[agilebrit]

This is a hundred and fifty words. Which means, to fit it all, it has to be in size 7 font. Which, UGH.

Working at the firm we not-so-jokingly call "Beelzebub's Barristers," you'll eventually encounter the line you refuse to cross. I'd never had qualms about getting terrible people out of big trouble; that's what lawyers do, although usually

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[ericjamesstone]

I think that works a lot better. I've made some suggested edits to cut the word count down to 120. That should allow you to use an eight-point font, which is what I use for mine.

Working at the firm we not-so-jokingly call "Beelzebub's Barristers," you'll eventually encounter the line you refuse to cross. I'd never had qualms about getting terrible people out of big trouble; that's what lawyers do, although usually on a smaller scale than ours.

But this client destroyed an entire city, and laughed while he did it. Over a million men, women, and children people gone, obliterated, just like that. And So instead of getting him off, I made sure he was found guilty, got the death penalty, and was sent straight to Hell, just for good measure.

I figured they'd fire me at the very least. Maybe--probably-- send me to Hell to keep the client company. Yet here I sit, in a comfy corner office, with a fat raise and the partnership I'd always coveted.

Were they testing me? And did I pass--or fail? I sit and I wonder, is it a Rreward? Or punishment?

I'll probably never know.

[agilebrit]

*ponders* You know, I think I like that better as a last line.

According to WP, it's letting me use an 8.5-point font, but it's Arial Narrow. It's readable, however.