The Strangest Strange Stranger - by JASH

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Hey hey! I think this piece has potential. You're dealing with an ambitious plot here and you've not done a bad job. There's a lot that needs fixing up and it's a very raw piece but I think with some care and attention, this could be good. I'm going to jump straight to the comments here as the others seem to have covered what you did well (I had a quick skim through the earlier reviews):

I roamed my eyes around while lying back slowly until my head touched the pillow. A lamppost, which partially lightens up the room with a faint orange glow, stood in a corner to my right.
[I'm going to stop you there since you seem to be having some trouble with your tenses. You're writing in past tense so every verb should be in past tense. If you read through your work and find one that's out of place like lightens, nine times out of ten you should change it. 'A lamp, which partially lit the room...' would work fine.]

Next to it were two wooden doors – like wardrobe doors because of their flowery designs.
[A better way of phrasing this would be to get your description in first and then your simile. Something like: 'Next to it were two wooden doors with a floral design running bottom to top, like wardrobe doors.' It makes for a smoother read.]

It's starting to get a bit too soppy but that could just be me. I'm not a big one for big speeches on how they miss their parents and how they love their parents. At least not if it doesn't involve some more down to Earth stuff, a little bit of bad in with the good to keep the realism sharp. Also, you're telling us a lot instead of describing and showing and it isn't really necessary information. It's enough for us to know she's been kid-napped without you recounting how it happened.

All I knew was when I was brought here, lack of food and sleep (one can never naturally sleep when one knows that one’s life is at stake) had caused me to feel as if I’d been here for an eternity. I’d felt like going insane – like an animal caged in darkness to be driven out mad.
[ I'd suggest using you instead of one as it's more colloquial and fits the character better. She doesn't intellectual enough, or old, so it just sounds odd.]

It was familiar. If I wasn’t mistaken, he was the man who had kicked me constantly back in the previous room I’d been. This was the first time I saw him clearly. He wore no shirt, which didn’t matter much because his body was covered with tattoos.


He looked down at me, I looked up at him. He snickered. “This is her?” he asked the man beside him, more of a statement of unbelief though than a question. He knelt on one knee and rested his arm on his thigh. “Say,” he told me, moving his face closer to mine so that I could smell his breathe breath, which smelled of smoke and alcoholic drink, “are you OK [This is why chat speak should be banned... the work is okay. If you're writing out dialogue or writing it out at all really, it should be okay,]?”


“Eat,” he said sarcastically. [How can you say that sarcastically? It's the wrong choice of adverb. Pick another.] “Eat, or Dong here” — he pointed at the man behind him, who in turn childishly waved the handgun above him — “will make the gun go ‘bang!’”


“Good girl!” he exclaimed, patting my head. He stood up and bent over. “Now you wait here as I fetch Andy. I’m gonna live leave you two alone so you can play.” He clapped once, and laughed. The other man laughed with him, and the room was filled with manly roars.


I'm not sure how I like the change from Andy to you. I think what you need to do is anywhere he's spoken of outside of dialogue, call him you. Even that very first time. If the guys are calling him Andy, your reader will understand without the awkward shift in perspective.

I'm wondering what Andy's motives are. He needs a little more fleshing out so that we can understand who he is, what's going on, how he got involved with this group. You also need to work on the characters of the police. I've met some bad ones in my time but even the rude, obnoxious ones follow the procedures. They'd at least start taking her details, right from the beginning, and say they'd check the case out later.

slapped his hand away. “Even if you’re wearing that uniform,” I furiously said, [Stop doing this. I know it seems a little dull writing I said 'insert adverb' but that's the way it goes. Don't reverse syntax, okay?] hugging myself as I remembered how awful my attire was, “you remind me exactly of them.” He backed up and never stepped any closer to me until my parents arrived.


Why is everyone using this annoying 'no? People do not all have the same dialect and you can't give something as unusual as that to more than one character. Choose one of them, the reporter or the attourney and have the other speak differently. This scene's also a little bland. You could convey the same information in a much shorter, more effective way.

Alright so all filled in on who Andy is/ was now which has been done pretty nicely but I still think you need a few more hints earlier on, just to give us something to like about him, something to know about him. It was also perk the reader's curiosity as to the rest of the story.

I've left some of the spelling and grammar because it would take forever if I commented on everything, but make sure you have another really careful read through. That should help you catch the other mistakes.

Very nicely written ending and that brings me to the close of my review. I don't really have anything to add. I think you started well with some good descriptions and some good atmosphere building. You lot it in the middle for a while there and it got a little bland and informative but by the end you picked it up again. So my suggestions to you would be to work on the middle section and also to up the realism factor here. For example, when she goes to view the bodies, make a point of her parents being present and there being a really firm procedure of consent. Since she's a minor, there'd be an awful lot of forms to fill out and they'd be very slow and cautious, reminding her that she doesn't have to do it at every point. Then there's the 'dungeon' setting. It would feel more believable if you changed that to a dark basement or something since they are actually in a house and most houses don't come with dungeons or dungeon like rooms.

Well I hope you found this at least a little helpful,

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Here I am for review number five.

This was interesting. I liked it. It had a refreshing feel to it. The initial problem was well-set, and the escape in a way reinforced this conflict. You could have very well left off the story after the man had rescued the MC, but you chose to keep going. There is nothing wrong with that, and the way you craft the resolution is, in all honesty, skillful. It was a kind of post-conflict story that kept the main storyline moving but did not fail to keep the reader interested; an elongated conclusion of sorts, one that continues through a more normal lifestyle. This is good at the end because the reader, after hearing about the main adventure, wants to know more about what happens afterward. It continues until the conflict, the mystery, introduced at the beginning is solved. You didn't go the whole way (I think this would encompass the capture of the bald and tattooed men), but I'm glad you didn't. It would have gotten a bit tedious, and off-topic as well. You would be relying heavily upon your MC's undying love for the man, and eventually this would not be very interesting. Where you left off, the sorrow is still fresh, and the reader can more easily experience the MC's emotions. I love the "letter" of sorts at the end, by the way. Something so personal, so deep, is strong in this context.

The number one thing I would consider working on is the description. I have really high standards for the amount of description in stories, so you could ignore this if you want to, but there seems to be a general lack of detailed description throughout the story. For example:

At last, I found the street, took a right turn, and ran some more till I arrived at a police station. There, I was informed where I was: Sapang Palay, Bulacan. I was in a province – very, very far from home.

I won’t forget that place as well. It was part of the insanity I had to go through. Amidst the cops and cuffed suspects about to be brought to another town, I stood, terribly shaking, pleading the police to rescue you. But they didn’t take any action even when I showed them my scars and grazes. They took me as a mad girl – concluded, to be precise.


I really don't know what to picture here. Describe the town for me. What do the people look like? What is the atmosphere? How hot is it? Are the dirt paths leading into a shady forest? Or is it a scorching desert with sparse shrubbery? I need to know. You say police station - but what is it really? Is it a great silver mansion? Or a shack with peeling blue paint? There are other places as well where more description could be useful.

You seem to go on quite a bit about the investigation. I would suggest cutting right to the chase. It keeps the love between MC and stranger alive. Maintaining this love through a longer period, such as this, is more difficult and inevitably less effective.

All the publicity really puts a dampener on the relationship as well. I would keep the investigation at a lower level, or even take it out altogether and have MC go and search for him herself. That's just my opinion, of course.

I loved the story. Excellent work, my friend. Very nice.

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Hi!
Jash, that was truly amazing, probably the best thing I have ever read!
Your detail was brilliant and the emotion was great.
My favorite part was the end:

Phanuel Andrei Gonzales,

I never told you how thankful I am for what you did. I had the chance, I know; but I declined the opportunity. It was because I thought I’d see you again. <-----"It was because I thought I'd see you again" very nice and bittersweat

I was wrong...

I was wrong to believe you when you told me that you were going to be alright.Awww no! *Cry cry* I believed that youd be alright...but no! You were killed! *Weep weep* Now, every time I remember your frightened, dark eyes, and wide, childish grin,very sweet. I think of how things could have turned out if we had escaped together. It’s simply mad, but sometimes I wonder if we might have been actually meant to be in a bed together. good words here, "only if" Sometimes I catch myself pondering if you really had cared for me – or if you had fallen in love with me even for just one moment in time.*sob sob* I think he did care about her, and that deep in her heart she know it.

If only I had known that you would make me into the maddest mad girl in the world,All boys drive you crazy, honey, not only the ones that risk their lifes for you, but every boy maybe I would have pushed you harder into leaving that place with me. Yeah, If I was in this situation I would be blaming myself too There were only two possibilities after all – we escape together, or we die together – and I have to admit that I wasn’t ready to know which of them would have come to pass. And even if now I have the courage to risk my own chances of living, it’s too late: I can never go back in time to know, I can never decide for my past, I can never do anything anymore – for you. I need to move on, I guess.

But before that...

Andy dear, I doubt that I will have all of my questions about you answered, and I guess your kindness will forever remain a mystery to me. But . . . there’s one thing I can and always will be sure of: You were the strangest strange stranger there was — and still is.

With all gratitude and affection,

Nina Baromeo



You have such beautiful and creative writing. I must say that this story made my day.
You must continue writing and I hope to read more things like this from you.
Thank you for posting it!

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OH MY... why are people asking me for the inspiration of this story? HAHAHA... Anyway, OK. I really wanted to write a story about this awful thing, and I had to think about on how to not make it awful... Gah... I wanted to make a soft story with a little punch about this hideous crime. So yeah. Anyway, girl. Thanks so much for reading. It means much to me that someone enjoyed it. :D
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To whoever liked this. Thanks so much. ♥
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FINALLY! I'M DONE READING THIS! :D Sorry for the major delay, twin. :)

Nitpicks! :

Next to it were two wooden doors – like wardrobe doors because of their flowery designs.

- Maybe, it's better if you wrote it like this: 'whiched looked like wardrobe doors...'?

Maybe Styrofoam was laid between...

- I think you should put a comma after 'Maybe'. And, I don't think you need to capitalize the first letter of 'Styrofoam'.
- Also, 'put' seems more appropriate than 'laid' since the styrofoam was put there hanging on the wall with the wood and not on the ground or a table or something that follows the direction of gravity xD.

Then when my parents would feel the sleepiness that people in their fifties...

- I think you have to put a comma after 'Then'.

Of course they would be.

- I think there should be a comma after 'course'.

...there was a couple who I knew loved me.

- Perhaps, this will sound better if you put 'who' after 'knew'.

...to round a corner, when the next thing I’d known,

- I don't think there should be a comma after 'corner'.

I had received a powerful blow on the back of my neck.

- The wording is awkward here, specifically 'I had received a powerful blow'. I think, this needs rephrasing. Maybe, remove 'had'.

Had anyone seen what had happened? Had anyone even tried to save me?

- I think it'd be best if you'll stick with past tense and not past perfect tense (Am I correct?) here since past perfect indicates continuity.

It wasn’t an accident . . . someone had deliberately knocked me out.

- Why were there supposed to be spaces in between the ellipsis? Anyway, I like the strength of this sentence. :) But, like I said, remove the 'had'.

...had volunteered to buy them: the onions.

- Maybe, it's better if you just removed the 'the onions' or replaced 'them' with 'the onions'.'

And how could have I known that after being slammed out of and gaining back my consciousness I would find myself...

- I think there should be a comma after 'consciousness'.

(at times in my guts)

- I think there should be a comma after 'times'.

Then he’d grabbed my hair and made me face him.

- Comma after 'Then'

Whatever would happen within these four gray walls

- You said that the character is an elegant room and yet, the walls are grey?

This man wore a dark, red shirt.

- There is such a color as dark red so I don't think you should separate 'dark' and 'red' with a comma.

...I could smell his breathe...

- You mean 'breath.

“are you OK?”

- Capitalize 'a' in 'are'.

But the bald man grabbed my hand...

- Formally, there should be a comma after 'But'.

“Now you wait here as I fetch Andy. I’m gonna live you two alone so you can play.”

- I think there should be a comma after 'Now'.
- 'live' should be 'leave'.

"...Lookie here . . . we got you a playmate…”

- I reckon it's a style of writing - putting spaces in between an ellipsis - but, strictly speaking, there shouldn't be. xD I'm not gonna nitpick about this again for the rest of the story. :)

Odd thing though – Andy was you . . . and there, you appeared for the first time and the last, by that door – and in my life.

- This was a confusing sentence, especially after the first dash. The reader has to read it a couple of times before s/he'd finally get it. I suggest rewriting.
- Nevertheless, I think there shouldn't be a comma after 'last'.
- Also, the changing of the target reader to 'Andy' seemed awkward. o.o But, it worked fine afterwards.

Or maybe your humour was simply different from theirs.

- I think there should be a comma before and after 'maybe' since it's an interrupter.

...you now sat beside me. Close enough to make my heart pound as if it was obliged to pump out a ton of blood.

- The succeeding sentence is connected to the preceding one so there shouldn't be a comma after 'me'. If you intended a pause, perhaps you should use an ellipsis.

Well it didn’t…

- Comma after 'Well'

Maybe you were under drugs...

- I think there should be a comma after 'Maybe'.

Then I heard a gunshot...

- Comma after 'Then'

“Now we have to hurry..."

- Comma after 'Now'

“Come one,”

- Typo: 'on'

“Now help me move the bed..."

- Comma after 'Now'

“Why did you disconnect the camera?” I heard loud, menacing laughs.

- Omg! That was frightening! (<-- Yep. That was my reaction in my thoughts.)

You pressed your bleeding thumb on your shirt...

- Was he wearing his shirt again? You didn't mention anything about the shirt again after you said he took it off.

...it was the back of the house I thought.

- Comma after 'house'

Then you smiled your childish smile.

- Comma after 'Then'

Did you kill them? – Or did they kill you?

- I think you should not capitalize the first letter of 'Or' here. (Thought I'd ask for another comma, did ya? XD)

I was in a province – very, very far from home.

- Maybe, it would sound better (and more dramatic) if you gave more emphasis to 'very'.

“They might get here before the sun rises.”

- I thought the place was 'very, very far from home', right?

They believed me, it seemed; but they prohibited me to tell anybody else.

- What the heck? Why the heck would her parents only seem to believe her? o.o

Channel 7 promptly aired...

- Yay! Channel 7! XD

...to me it was hunting...

- You mean 'haunting'.

“Sexual assault is an inhumane act, ‘no?”

- Did you mean 'ano', 'cause that's a Filipino word and I think you have to clarify that?

Maybe he had regretted saying too much. Maybe he had been guilty because he knew what he had been doing was wrong.

- Comma after the 'Maybe's'

Did they threaten you, too?

- I don't think there should be a comma after 'you'. If you intended a pause, perhaps you should use an ellipsis...which seems rather long though.

"If you can recognize eitherof them..."

- If you remove the 'of them', it seems wrong. I suggest rewriting.

I go back and remember a particular interview for the Jessica Soho show.

- Maybe, you should use 'from' instead of 'for'?

Sometimes I catch myself pondering...

- Comma after 'Sometimes'

- - - - - - -

Wow. That is really amazing! :D *standing ovation* It's beautifully done and it's very realistic! The trouble I got here was that the beginning paragraphs until 'she woke up again' were pretty boring. I mean, those parts were the reason why it took me long to finish reading this because I kept on stopping. Maybe, it was just my mood. o.o Also, there were lack of details at the beginning part. The main character was hardly described (as far as I can remember), also the first room. There was so much focus on the window and the soundproof thing that the other details of the room were left behind, same with the main character's.

The middle part was really epic. :D It keeps the interest of the reader going and makes him/her want to read more. It was really thrilling too. The details were pretty well-balanced.The middle part is simply the best! :D

The last part was taking too long to end. o.o It was like: It ended too slowly but, it started rather quick. It was like a biography or a recount or something which seemed too real. (By the way, the picture doesn't fit so much because the setting is in the Philippines and the character is a Filipina. :P xD)

Side comment: Jessica Soho has a squeaky voice?? What? o.O? She doesn't have a squeaky voice...

Nevertheless, I really liked this story! :D It could be a movie already! Yeah...5/5 stars for the story! xD I give you only 3 for the 3/5 for the way it was written, I guess (Sorry!), because of the beginning and ending parts. They seemed really dragging, especially the last parts. o.o

Anyway, guess what the time is now?

It's already 2:09 am here, and I have an early class! lol

I've nothing else to say but KEEP WRITING! :D
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What is up with you and commas, Twin? And I had a research for the ellipses thingy. It's OK, don't worry... ;) And you are so right about the shirt! And yes! Yay Channel 7! And Jessica HAS a squeaky high-pitched voice! And those typos are so funny, like the live, haunting, and one. :lol: Thank you so much, dude. :D I shall rewrite soon.

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D'awww... people still liking this... Thanks so much! :D
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Wow! What an amazing story!I love your style of vocabulary, and the plot of the story is capturing from the begining. Great Job, love to read more of your stories. Simply fantastic.




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Thanks, girl! :D
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It was very strong. You did an overall good job with your grammar. and the storyline flowed very well, the only part I would change is when you are talking about her escape, it got a little confusing at that part. Keep up the good work (:
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Ahhh... yes, Inspiredlight. Thanks for the comment! :D
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I realy loved this..It was powerful and had me at the edge of my seat. I had my breath held the entire time while she was looking at the body;s of the two men. I almost cried at the end. Amazing!




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awww... thanks so much, Marci! :3 I hope I can edit this soon. :3
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Hey Jash! SO finally I am here, and I know how weird I am. Like you had asked me for the request long back, and I had still not ever come here. I am a terrible person, wanna beat me,then go ahead. :) I am sorry in advance if this review turns out to be futile, like I think it would, and if I repeat something someone has already pointed(since I'm not reading other reviews), then please forgive me, and take it as a more serious point since two people can't say wrong. :)

Comments to your suggestions/things you'd have liked to post in the spoiler below: :D

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A lamppost, which partially lightens up the room with a faint orange glow, stood in a corner to my right.
I think you did a better job without 'post'. If you listen to some story and suddenly a lamp comes, it brightens up the mood, but a lamp post might seem something far too fetched, or some heavy thing.

I began to have a hard time breathing because of (the) frustration and terror which choked me.
You should have 'the' word.

You pulled yourself out of the hole (You stood) and held up the gun, pointing it toward where the voice came from. “Run,” you hissed.
I like the struck words better.



I roamed my eyes around while lying back slowly until my head touched the pillow.
I don't think it should be 'I roamed my eyes'. Eyes aren't something tangible in the sense that they can't be held in your hand, so it's actually weird. I like the imagery, but the wording has really eaten up the sentence, me thinks.

Then when my parents would feel the sleepiness that people in their fifties would experience at nine thirty in the evening, they each would kiss me on the forehead, tell me to rest too, and leave me on my own.
If I were you, I'd use some other word for sleepiness. You know, I just felt it was too common a word to fit in the sentence. Something like dizziness, or something else. It's maybe just my personal view/opinion.

For now, I loved having a good memory – I moved my head to the left and saw the pillow beside me – but later, I knew that I wouldn’t appreciate it at all.
I committed this mistake once. It shouldn't be 'now' since the thing has already happened in the past, so just change it to 'then' because that is more appropriate.

Losing me must have been the worst thing that had ever happened toin their entire married life.


Well, at least that was how I reflected to comfort myself.
Are you sure it was 'reflected' you wanted to use here?


I hadn’t been doing anything butto stare at the green and red checker design of the table cloth, so I, with my unsuppressed jollity, had volunteered to buy them: the onions.


I found someone else more pathetic than I: them.
Why does she consider herself pathetic? She hasn't done any wrong. Is she saying so because of what is going to happen to her?

I couldn’t enjoy the scene, because I kept on thinking about what might have happened to you.
She doesn't know yet, right?

No matter how huge and beautiful the house could appear to the eyes of men, to me it was hunting(you meant haunting?); it had held secrets which had acted as hell for those women who had been there before me.



As in the beginning, I wasn't really glued. Call it my problem or whatever, I think you came to describe the room she lived in too quickly. I mean, we had just started the story and you were actually narrating us everything, so I'd like you to maybe slow down on that portion and make us more intrigued before info-dumping. The first few lines were nice, good enough to pull me into the story, but then as you described the whole place too early, I was a bit pulled back. Maybe it's not my style of reading, but I'd strongly recommend you to not throw so much of info at your readers in the mere beginning.

OMG! I loved the way you kept this story like a normal story and then started on something like second person narration. It was amazing to read that you had Andy been referred all along the story, and it was quite a thrill. As for the narration style, I'll give you ten on ten. Good work done, girl. :)

I do like your descriptions, that's not the case, but the way you describe is maybe different from my style. There are two ways of describing and I think you opt for the non-poetic descriptions. You know, a same thing can be said in two ways. For example lemme explain you a situation. We've got a dark, sullen room and I have to describe it in a bit. So I can do it in two ways:
1. I entered the dark room. Everywhere I looked, there was darkness looming like a black toxic paint. It was smelly, had not been cleaned in days, and was scary. (Okay, a bad example)

2. As soon as I set my foot inside the room, an appalled feeling gripped tight my body like wires. I could hardly breathe. A stench whipped across the room and entered my nostrils, making me agitated. Everywhere I stretched my glance, a dark looming pall of smoke covered up the room, seeming like a warrior guard.

The first description wasn't meant to be that bad, okay, but since it wasn't my style, I actually sucked at it. But my point is that instead of telling how the things look like and smell like, you could actually take the readers there. Taking them there would be an excellent thing to do and if you just narrate them, they might get bored. So kidnap them and transport them to any place, feeling the MCs or characters are experiencing.

Like:
It was dark, and foul smell came from it.
I bet you can do better than this. You know the same matter can be said in a different way, so that when readers think of the story days later, some description always lives with them. :wink:


They might go insane. Their character is distorted; they become upset for no reason. They become stressed, ‘no?
I get you wanted to benchmark the attorney's dialog from others, but why is she repeatedly saying 'no? It is kind of annoying, and I felt that this is maybe some accent you people have there, but it didn't make sense. It just seemed like it was her style, and I didn't quite like it. Okay, if she does it sometimes, but it's really getting too much, so I'd suggest you to maybe cut down some of the 'no, so people don't get bored.


This has to be the best thing you've written till now, and for the first time, your wordings didn't look too much heavy for a poor soul for me to read, and you had toned down everything. Straight from the choice of words to the kind of emotions you had in there. It's an exhilarating read, and even though the concept in itself wasn't that unique(since I've read a magazine about prostitution cycles in Philippines and how some good guys help them out), but it was your way of writing that really stood out of me. Whole thing didn't dread me at all, but I still wondered how would the soul of the girl would have been slain if anything wrong had happened with her.You carried the story exceptionally well, and I can't believe it didn't get into the journal. I am really sorry for that, but I guess it's just pure bad luck and nothing else on your talent's part.

I won't say much because I liked the story the way it is. :)

Keep Writing, and just work on some points I said.

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