Hi. Are you going to hate me for bringing this back? Yes? Sorry. I added it to my reading list when you first posted it and I didn't get a chance to review it until now. Since it's review day, I thought I'd finally check this out.
I'm gonna be a bit nit-picky, because this is so short... so bear with me.
This kinda bothers me: using the word "song" to describe classical music is a little... insensitive. Also, the form of this sentence is awkward. I'd suggest something more along the lines of: "Still, if you were to put your ear close to it and strain to hear, you would catch the faint whisper of some faint piece of classical music." Okay, that's not great either... but you get the idea, right? Right. Onward.Still, if you were to put your ear close to it and strain to hear, you would catch the faint whisper of some song, Classical music.
Period, not comma. I love the words, though; very powerful.It is the voice of a dying man,
Obvious enough, aye?The radio crackles with static, ortheperhaps the batteries have come to the ends of their lives.
The "T" in "the" should be lowercase, and the period after "it" should be a comma: %u201CTruthfully, there was no way to stop it,%u201D the man admits.%u201CTruthfully, there was no way to stop it.%u201D The man admits.
Period, not comma.We have never failed so badly as now,%u201D
Pauses for a long time? Maybe? Maybe not.He pauses a long time, and the static threatens to drown him out.
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Overall, I liked this. It was simple and... rather cute, really, for an apocalypse. I liked the sentiment of it and I think you did an excellent job of building up suspense without making anything overdone or cheesy. And the end was strangely touching, in an empty, hollow sort of way. Nicely done, Jenth. Official Azila Seal of Approval.
There's not really much to discuss about this because it's so short, but I'd agree with Lava and say that a wee bit more description would be rather nice. What little you did have is quite nice, but... there's just so little of it! I want more.
Sorry for the unhelpfulness of this review. I like this piece, and I think it's nicely simple--too much overanalysing wouldn't do it good.
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