Like ElshaHawk, I loved the idea of the story. This has the potential for an amazing series.
There is one exception: the story is a bit “choppy”. The challenge required single syllable words, which you executed beautifully, but I feel you relied to heavily on the simple sentence. More use of commas, and less use of the word “I” would have served this story better. The simpleness didn’t fit the character well. It might have worked for the thought process of a simpleton, but not for someone whos exsistance seems to span eons, and is looking for answers.
Fair critique, Krulltar. I did wind up with simple sentences as I tried to think with simple words. I’ll challenge the last bit, as I didn’t intend for the character to span eons, meaning him more to be on the early end of this repeating life cycle [note that his max number is six, whereas for a character like your imagining I would have gone for a much higher number to show the span in mind].
Nice job, THX! You managed to write a very cool, unique story with only monosyllabic words. Although, between you and me, “some day” in the fourth paragraph is totally cheating. ;-)
Very neat concept. I thought the simplicity of the sentences worked well with the character. They seem to have come to a sort of acceptance of their fate, of dying (or not dying) over and over again.
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ElshaHawk (LoA)
Krulltar
THX 0477
Krulltar
uselessness
Kater
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