Broken Melodies
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Last published Wed, Jun 7, 2023
The music industry is competitive and deadly with everyone striving to make a name for themselves- to achieve perfection. But a one can only endure so much before they break.
The Arnold Academy of Music is the center of success. The one academy every aspiring musician would sell their soul to get accepted into. Everyone fighting an unspoken battle against themselves and each other.
Samantha Keys, a self professed tea addict, is a vocalist and starting her first year at the academy. Always putting others before herself, her heart is a glass bottle wrapped in tape just waiting to shatter.
Kai Reynolds, a serious coffee addict (although he'd never admit it), is a pianist and starting his first year at the academy. Being held at unattainable standards all his life he's not far from totally losing it.
Can they save each other? Or will it all fall apart? Broken melodies all that remain of their broken hearts. For what is lost can never truly be found the same again.
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