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The Kingdom of the Soul.

Posted by ZombieGhost - September 1st, 2023


What is a kingdom?


A place to feel safe and happy. Some space you can rely on getting rest, in peace and without a doubt..


Sleep with no worries.


Or it is where the king of a realm can rule the totality of it all.


But what if there was a down side of this?


Long before the dawn of time, the gods have created the reality of multiple universe and made our world.

Not every soul on this earth can imagine what this mean.


Since there is fools who believe nothing is special about the spiritual realm.

That it is all a dream..


The thing that won't change overall is the death that is inevitable for everyone.

The dead doesn't speak much, but it is a real message to the foolish.

On this planet and beyond that.


The void of the obscure is far from being clarified from the human mind.

Any second matter when you are aware of your mortality.

But..


What really make this clear to anyone?


The devil is hidden in everyone, in their own ignorance.

What we don't know is what make us do things evil.


From doing nothing, at all. To doing unimaginable things on this life.

The devil loves to hurt more than anything.


That's why the idea of lack of knowledge is important for evil.

It is the seed of the madness.


Where the chaos can go wild and torment the innocent.

A place that we don't call home.


But we call hell.

Prison of the constant present time.

In our own mind.


A space of pure horror from our consciousness.


But fear not, the light as not been stolen yet.

There is still hope in this earth.

Humans aren't all ignorants.


The perfect opportunity will come to change the situation.


And the earth shall keep the cycle of life.


Like a true color of our land shall show itself.

Justice will prevail against all odds.

And may lady luck smile upon us all.


The end.


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Judge Comment: An interesting take on the assignment! I liked the format and especially liked that it was different from some of the others. The poem-like structure lends the concept of “The Kingdom of the Soul” much more gravity. Some things to note about it though is that there were several grammar mistakes throughout that may have caused some of the messages to become muddled. I say just make sure to look through and potentially read it out loud to catch some of those in the future. The other thing is that the concept of the kingdom was lost by the end and didn't end up coming full circle. I like the theme but I think having a structure where you circle back to that theme would have made this piece much stronger as a whole. But overall I got the concept and liked the unique direction so thanks for your piece!

Thank you. I know I rushed the end and forgot to check my grammar. I actually made 5 stories and pick this one since it was more interesting, and poem like. Sorry if I didn't do well, I will train harder next time.

Judge Comment:

Hey! Thanks for your participation in the Writer's Jam! You have some interesting concepts here, and I definitely appreciate the unique formatting approach you took. It lends well to your word choice and sentence structure!

In competitions like this that rely on stories sticking close to the chosen prompt, be careful to not go too far from the prompt! As artyrian mentioned, by the end, it was unclear which prompt you were inspired by. Also, as a small note, we only saw this piece because I manually visited every entrants Newgrounds page throughout the submission period, please make sure your tags are typo-free in the future, if you're looking to participate again (the tag should be "writers-jam-1" but you put "writer," which means we wouldn't have been able to find your piece if we didn't look through everyone's account individually).

Also make sure to be careful of confusing wording and/or grammar mistakes that can lead to your piece becoming difficult to follow! This wasn't a huge issue, but there were moments in which I felt a bit lost in your piece, or at the very least had to go back and reread a few sentences to absorb your piece. Overall though, your excellent word choice and thematic adherence made up for a lot of this. Great work, and I can't wait to see what else you end up creating!