diction
It only leads to a dead end when you join in on the newest trend. Don't follow the bend, instead try and mend and defend like a guardian once said.
The sirens rang as the wheels screeched to a halt. On lookers lined the streets, their eyes doing all the talking. No one had seen a beached whale in the city.
The casualties had been stockpiling before we had even reached the battlefield. Piles of broken bodies lined the trenches, horrendous screams of pain blanketing the entirety of the blood soaked battlefield. The tide had turned.