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 The Soul's war for Love Open in new Window. [13+]
The brief story describes a notion between a man imaging his love whilst being in a war
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Rated: 13+ | (3.0)
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Welcome Islam to WDC and thandk you for sharing this profound expression. I could really feel the hearts and struggle of these two people as you describe it from each ot their perspectives. I liked these lines alot : "I was sent to a war within my soul, I was sent to define myself." Wow! Tth is deep!

The suggestions I have for making this wonderful sentimental piece better concern Punctuation and tense of your vebs.

Punctuation/sentence structure:
You tend to use alot of commas and thereby create run-on sentences. The reader needs to know when to take a breath--a stop. Youhave so much vital thoughts to share and we want to live and feel each one before rushing to the next.

For example, your first line has 8 phrases. An example of how to break it up might be: ( if you do not mind my playing with your words--no insult intended)

"It is like a war(.) The state(in which we are) is war. Just when I (met) her, just when I was going to talk to her, to tell her how I feel, I was sent to the war(.) I was sent to a war within my soul(.) I was sent to define mysel(.) I was sent away from her(.)"
This makes your sentences have more impact. ( a few little grammar errors as well.) This is only one way---you can do it other ways too as you edit.

So my advice is to read through and see where there are complete thoughts that could stand by themselves and add a period instead of a comma where it feels like you can shorten lines. It will help other readers alot.

Tense of verbs:
"besides if she lets go" should be "let go" in the context of your sentence prior..
In "sometimes I ask myself" is present but I think it needs to be "asked" and later "I tell myself" should be "told" .

"the only reason...enemy" you need to finish the thought with something like "is to get back to her". We need to know the reason you want out of the army and avoid getting hurt.
After this you are speaking in the present tense again. so you will need to clarify and edit in terms of tense.

Your ideas and flow are good. I would be happy to look at this again after a bit of editing.

Thanks you for sharing this heart felt peice trying to give the points of view of the male and female characters during an extremely hard situation. Well done. Write on and follow your heart! Light on the path, eyestar

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