The Assassin
Approaching its victim suspiciously on a dark street, a walking shadow appeared out of nowhere. Walking pass his victim, he told him to run away and pulled put a gun out of his pocket.
Walking on a rainy night at a narrow, dark street, the victim didn’t notice the shadow. He thought he was alone, so he walked confidently to his house. Little didhe know that a shadow followed him for the past thirty minutes.
Peter, a sixteen-year-old boy, did not notice the shadow approaching him until he was told to run away. Peacefully walking, he wore his headphones while listening to pop music. Being a fan of Shawn Mendes wasn’t easy, he had posters of him in his room. He lived happily until fear and anxiousness collapsed his mind.
Telling Peter to run, the shadow calmly pulled out a gun. Horrified, Peter whitened his face and did what he was told to. Anxiously, he began to run trying to escape. He ran at full speed, totally unaware that the shadow had its gun aiming at his back. While shooting Peter, the shadow tried to increase the damage. The sound of the gun silenced the rain’s noise. As the shadow approached the corpse, it hit the ground and lied calmly on the ground. The magazine was emptied on the warm corpse. It looked as if he was a dummy in a shooting range. The bullets were inserted into his body while blood ran away from his body as trying to escape from the bullets.
Being satisfied with his work, the shadow simply looked at the boy’s poor corpse and smiled while hiding the gun on the same pocket that he had pulled it out before. Awkwardly, he looked away and walked firmly to somewhere. Could It be his house? Could it be the victims house?
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Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening/Night(whichever one it is in your part of the world),
Hi! I'm here to leave a quick review!!
First Impression: This was a pretty solid piece I think. It has its kinks here and there but ultimately I think it does manage to do what it sets out to do, so that's pretty solid, although I don't know if I could call the character here an assassin per see given how sloppy and how vengeful this seemed.
Anyway let's get right to it,
This is a slightly disjointed start here. While we've got a pretty decent bit of tension being built up there at the same time the way there's a random shout to run mention by who we can only assume is the assassin and then we cut to a person wandering randomly despite the shout just is a little jarring and it breaks the whole flow of the piece and makes it a lot more disjointed than it should be.
Well that was quite the graphic climax right there. I think you manage to go ahead and really dive at the very heart of the piece with that one. Its a pretty powerful moment, one that definitely is made even more so by that stark and unforgiving description that shows this assassin clearly having some sort of vendetta against this poor person if the rather violent manner of the killing is anything to go by. Its still a little clunky on the flow because you hop back and forth between the POV's really quickly and seem to hop back and forth in time too.
This ending is perhaps the best part of this piece. It manages to be fairly intriguing and mysterious and it flows the best out of all the paragraphs. The ambiguity to end on and the promise of potentially worse to come for this poor victim is a powerful note as well there.
Aaaaand that's it for this one.
Overall: Overall though, this is still a pretty powerful piece and I think despite the few flaws it has at its core it works well enough that this could really reach quite a good place with just a bit of editing.
As always remember to take what you think was helpful and forget the rest.
Stay Safe
Harry
Hi Adrian,
Mailice here with a short review!
This was a strange, interesting story. It had a certain tension built up, especially because you got off to a very dynamic start by changing the sentence structure. I also like the POV of the story. It's great to see the story from a different point of view. Still, it seems a bit short and I wonder if there's more to come, or if it was just a short story.
The story itself still has some things that make it a little tiring to read. The reading flow is partly affected by the words and you manage to repeat yourself more and more from the second paragraph on. Especially the beginning parts of the sentences read the same and there you could have managed to put in the same dynamic as at the beginning.
I also wonder what the plot is. As a reader, you're hardly going to know anything; you're really only going to know the execution, but no back story, and I think you could certainly write an introduction there, like the assassin reading a name and then approaching the boy. At the moment it seems more like a snippet of a story than an overall construct.
In places I like your choice of words and how you describe things. It gives the story a very cool and dangerous undertone. Other points that stood out to me:
Here it should be "past" instead of "pass".
I don't know why you included the second half of the sentence. It is a contradiction to the first half. I would explain it a bit more, why it isn't easy to be a fan.
I like this sentence. It has this fairytale vibe "They lived happily until the very end" but here it as a pretty dark and sinister tone.
I like this sentence too. It's an interesting approach to change the sound sources to prioritize one more than the other.
Overall it was a neat little story, where I think you could expand it a bit more, to give more information.
Have fun writing!
Mailice
Hey there, Adrian! I hope you're having a good day!
I'll get right into it.
Good one-line hook, although the "suspiciously" is unnecessary.
I think you mean walking past his victim.
You already established that he didn't notice the shadow, and I'm a stickler for not having repetitions.
..why not? Why on earth not?
Don't say he whitened his face, say he went pale/white. It isn't a voluntary action.
How could he not know, when the shadow pulled it out right in front of him before telling him to run?
By doing what? Explain.
*lay* calmly. Not lied.
And "calmly" is a very weird word to use here. Perhaps you could replace it with "still."
Contrary to what you were trying to do, this doesn't create a cool visual. It just sounds silly. "inserted" is too gentle a word to be used in describing how the bullets bury themselves in a corpse.
The words need to be rearranged to read "the poor boy's corpse."
Quite a clumsy sentence.
"He looked away, then walked off to an unknown destination" sounds a little more solid. And it doesn't have any grammar problems.
Why is he awkward, anyway?
I don't see the need for these questions if you just say he went to an unknown destination. The questions only made the ending feel very awkward.
Frankly, I'm not terribly impressed with the story, mainly because of the grammar, which needs a lot of work. I suggest you use Grammarly for some time to improve your writing skills. Or just read more, and observe how sentences are phrased.
The structure/format was pretty interesting; they look like stanzas, which lends an almost poetic quality to this piece.
The plot is also okay, although it's not going to be able to single-handedly carry your story. And I don't know enough about the characters, action, and setting to actually feel anything. My emotions were completely flat. I wasn't thrilled or scared. I didn't see what this story is trying to do.
But it's a good effort, and I'm sure with practice you can do much better. Happy writing!
~ Lee
PS: If anything I said offended you, I'm sorry. I'm genuinely trying to help. I'm not trying to be mean or anything. I'd love to see you improve.
Hi it's Dossereana here to review your short story. So let's get right into it shell we.
Wow this was a great line to start it all of, I was instantly hocked. Gosh who is this man with a gun? and who is he aiming for?
Wow this poor victim why's this person going after him like this.
Okay this is really good so far, you got me really hocked to the hole thing, but your probably wondering why didhe is in bold, well that should be spelt: did he, easy to forget to ad a space, don't worry it's not a big thing.
Gosh Peter is only sixteen, I can't believe this, and this person want's to shoot him ouch what did he do wrong. Hu Pop music the classic's for when ya want a good jig. Also I must say Shawn's pretty good at his singing.
Nice end, now I'm really wondering about these two last questions, who's house is it? I must say I love gory story's I no I'm weird that way, but this was so cool to read.
Okay so that's all I can say about this, thank you so much for giving me a great read I really in joyed it a lot. I hope to read more from you in the future.
I hope you have a great day/night witch ever side of the world your on.
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Good story, i like the details
Amazing!!!! Love it.
love your story
thank you