Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-25024956-20140605002312/@comment-25024956-20140606005035

I'd like to thank you guys for your feedback. I have made one (very) minor change to transition the Morse more cleanly. I like to take a minimalist style in most of my stories and it shows in this one, possibly to my detriment. I like to make every detail important and state nothing unneeded, but some things slip through the cracks.

As for the other concerns, I am not entirely sure how to go around some of the points brought up. With regards to the suddenness of the story, it is supposed to be sudden. The event that transpired in the story isn't some prolonged event or a repeating one but an isolated one and it is because of this that there is some sense of urgency in the warning. I will be glad to receive further feedback based on that as your current reviews require a drastic overhaul of the story's setting.

As for why I did not explain how he knew Morse and how he knew it was Morse, the latter is explained, albeit clumsily, by the pops and creaks, and how the first two letters in the warning are S and O. Even when at six I knew the Morse for S.O.S. so I assumed that people are liable to connect Morse to the sounds if the first letters spelled out are S and O. With regards to the former, I find explaining how he knew Morse to be entirely superfluous to the story and disruptive of the story's flow. I don't really need that info and I doubt the protagonist would recall it either, lying in bed.