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Melodies of Strength

by 22Midnight


Melodies of Strength

The night has come, falling from distant trees. We rain from the clouds with melodies around us, bringing us life and harmony. Everything you've wanted is right in front of you, here in this place, where your dreams can finally come true. Your heart may never be ready for the trials that you must take, but your soul and mind are waiting for a time when they can unleash their power. We wait among many for this joyous day to come, and many years may pass, and no destiny shall reveal itself to its fellow neighbors, but soon, in the dead of night, by the graves that have been still for generations, a movement shall now emerge from the land. Shaking shall be heard from the very bottom of the earth, and the still sand will start to turn into a whirlpool as the once dead now resurrect and come to life once again. But this time, their minds are changed, and their souls are not what they used to be. They may look the same, but everything is different now. There is a newfound energy inside them—a twinkle behind there eyes—and even the most dangerous people can never take them down again!


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Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening/Night(whichever one it is in your part of the world),

Hi! I'm here to leave a quick review!!

Anyway let's get right to it,

The night has come, falling from distant trees. We rain from the clouds with melodies around us, bringing us life and harmony. Everything you've wanted is right in front of you, here in this place, where your dreams can finally come true. Your heart may never be ready for the trials that you must take, but your soul and mind are waiting for a time when they can unleash their power. We wait among many for this joyous day to come, and many years may pass, and no destiny shall reveal itself to its fellow neighbors, but soon, in the dead of night, by the graves that have been still for generations, a movement shall now emerge from the land. Shaking shall be heard from the very bottom of the earth, and the still sand will start to turn into a whirlpool as the once dead now resurrect and come to life once again. But this time, their minds are changed, and their souls are not what they used to be. They may look the same, but everything is different now. There is a newfound energy inside them—a twinkle behind there eyes—and even the most dangerous people can never take them down again!


This is quite an intriguing piece that you've got here. The title already draws you in with just how unique it is. Its not often you tend to see a word like a melody go along with the idea of strength, especially to sort of be describing it, and once we actually dive into this piece it definitely lives up to that exciting promise that it pulls us in with. The environment that you manage to create here is really quite a special one, especially with that imagery toward the end.

Just the idea of how a song can energize you gets put into a scene that is far more visceral here with us seeing this literal representation of rising up from a dead state. I think that's a very cool choice that you've made there to convey this in that fashion. There's of course then also the bonus that if you dive a little bit further into what exactly this means you uncover another layer of meaning too. And for a story presented in a form this short that is incredible to just inject even more into it while it remaining this size.

Overall, a very through provoking piece for how small it happens to be an quite nicely done too!

Aaaaand that's it for this one.

As always remember to take what you think was helpful and forget the rest.

Stay Safe
Kate




22Midnight says...


Thank you so much for the kind words KateHardy I really appreciate it a lot, this is actually a short story that was inspiration from my novel that I'm currently working on, so glad that you liked it thanks again! :)



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Was not meant to add another part. Sorry.




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An amazing read. if there was more to it, I'd gladly look around for it all day just to find the rest. Recommended it to many of my friends cuz this deserves more reads and likes. Keep up this amazing work and in the next upcoming days, I'll read anything else you will or have posted.
Great short story.
Demi <3




22Midnight says...


thank you so much, it means a lot! :D



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Whoa. That was a really cool little read! Could definitely be made into a longer story. I enjoyed how there wasn't a definite meaning, and can probably be interpreted in varying ways, depending on the person. Nonetheless, however, the vocabulary and metaphors were.. to say the least inspiring, and well thought out.

Amazing story! 10/10 would recommend.




22Midnight says...


thank you so much this means a lot to me! might turn it into a story one day still thinking about it. :D



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Hello, friend!
I'm here to check out this short little story of yours!!

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Per my interpretation, this was an interesting way to write a story! There was a lack of punctuation and other grammatical errors that made it a tad unclear in some parts, but the overall message along with the descriptive language was really good!! So, let's dive into this piece!


If I could offer any sort of advice, it would be related to your sentence structure, or lack thereof. This short story, while very short, seemed to be one giant run-on sentence. There was no distinguishing punctuation or capitalization to separate any of the sentences, and that got a little confusing in some parts.

You put commas where periods or semicolons could have gone and forgot periods in other places altogether. I don't know if this was a conscious choice of yours, but if not, this is a relatively simple fix that can be accomplished by simply going through and finding phrases that seem to stand alone, capitalizing them, and adding the proper punctuation. (because that is a lot of text to work through, i added the changes i would make to the comment under this review!)

But, obviously, this is just a suggestion, and it's always up to the writer, so please take this criticism lightly and know that I mean nothing negative by it—only trying to provide a somewhat useful critique.


If I had to pick my favorite part, it would absolutely have to be the imagery spread throughout this short work!! You seem to have a real knack for portraying your thoughts in a very vivid way! I mean, I could picture almost everything you said so lucidly!

To pick one specific part that really caught my eye, I would use the quote that states,

...by the graves that have been still for generations, a movement shall now emerge from the land shaking shall be heard from the very bottom of the earth, and the still sand will start to turn into a whirlpool...


This was a wonderful way to show what was going on! The rising of the dead being portrayed beautifully by the words of the living. You captured the essence and genuine feel of the scene with this line, and I really enjoyed all of the thoughts and emotions it evoked, so kudos to you for that!!

It seems like imagery and descriptive language may be something you're really good at, so I think you should take that a run with it! Keep doing what you're doing while implementing some more skills, and you'll be an astonishing writer!!


Overall, I have a lot of positive things to say about this piece, but there are still some things that need working on! Nonetheless, you've done a great job here, and I'm really happy you posted this for us all to read!! Keep up the hard work, and I can't wait to see what else you have in store for us!!!

Thank you for taking the time to write and post this, and I hope this review is of some use to you!


Goodbye for now! I hope you have a magnificent day (or night) wherever you are!




PKMichelle says...


Like I said in the above review, I'm going to break this entire piece down and add the proper punctuation and capitalization so as to hopefully help you in the future!

If this is not something you're interested in, feel free to completely ignore it. Otherwise, open the spoiler and take what you need!

Spoiler! :
Your story, as it is, reads like this:
the night has come falling from distant trees we rain from the clouds melodies around us bringing us life and harmony everything you've wanted is right in front of you here in this place, where you dreams can finally come true your heart may never be ready for the trials that you must take but your soul and mind are waiting for a time where it can unleash its power we wait among many for this joyous day to come and many years may pass and no destiny shall reveal it's self to its fellow neighbors, but soon in the dead of night, by the graves that have been still for generations, a movement shall now emerge from the land shaking shall be heard from the very bottom of the earth, and the still sand will start to turn into a whirlpool as the once dead, now resurrect and come to life once again, but this time there minds are changed and the souls are not what it used to be, they may look the same, but everything is different now, there is a new found energy inside them a twinkle behind there eyes, and even the most dangers of people can never take them down again!


Let's change it up just a little to fix any grammar issues... I've broken it into stand-alone sentences and fixed grammar errors, so that's what the next several quotes will be :D

The night has come, falling from distant trees.

We rain from the clouds with melodies around us, bringing us life and harmony.

Everything you've wanted is right in front of you, here in this place, where your dreams can finally come true.

Your heart may never be ready for the trials that you must take, but your soul and mind are waiting for a time when they can unleash their power.

We wait among many for this joyous day to come, and many years may pass, and no destiny shall reveal itself to its fellow neighbors, but soon, in the dead of night, by the graves that have been still for generations, a movement shall now emerge from the land.

Shaking shall be heard from the very bottom of the earth, and the still sand will start to turn into a whirlpool as the once dead now resurrect and come to life once again.

But this time, their minds are changed, and their souls are not what they used to be.

They may look the same, but everything is different now.

There is a newfound energy inside them%u2014a twinkle behind there eyes%u2014and even the most dangerous people can never take them down again!


Those are the ways I would change all of this and how I would organize your text into proper sentences. So now, let's see it all together!!

The night has come, falling from distant trees. We rain from the clouds with melodies around us, bringing us life and harmony. Everything you've wanted is right in front of you, here in this place, where your dreams can finally come true. Your heart may never be ready for the trials that you must take, but your soul and mind are waiting for a time when they can unleash their power. We wait among many for this joyous day to come, and many years may pass, and no destiny shall reveal itself to its fellow neighbors, but soon, in the dead of night, by the graves that have been still for generations, a movement shall now emerge from the land. Shaking shall be heard from the very bottom of the earth, and the still sand will start to turn into a whirlpool as the once dead now resurrect and come to life once again. But this time, their minds are changed, and their souls are not what they used to be. They may look the same, but everything is different now. There is a newfound energy inside them%u2014a twinkle behind there eyes%u2014and even the most dangerous people can never take them down again!


If you made it this far, I hope this was helpful!! Once again, feel free to ignore anything you disagree with!

Goodbye again! I look forward to more from you!!



PKMichelle says...


wherever "%u2014" shows up in the text, there's actually supposed to be an em dash, which is the longest type of dash you can use in writing.

Sorry for any confusion...



22Midnight says...


thank you so much for taking the time to write a long very helpful review, my problem always is punctuation, even my teacher at school is on my case about it at the moment.



22Midnight says...


i hope you don't mind that i used what you wrote,

not sure what a long dash symbol is though compared to other dash's so didn't know how to change that.



PKMichelle says...


that's absolutely fine!! and if you can't figure out the long dash. commas in their place would work just fine in this case!!



PKMichelle says...


i did not mean to put a period there lol




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