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Strange Strangers

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By Melody Hewson
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(4.00 based on 3 reviews)

Published: May 28, 2012
Words: 4,101 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781476082011


Description

Gloria and Joe are on their way to see their grandson's graduation, but as usual, Joe takes a wrong turn and gets lost, even though he continues to insist he knows exactly where he is. They take on a strange passenger after almost running him over. But things are not quite what they seem.

Tags

horror, humor, lost, werewolf, night, woods, full moon

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Review by: Michael Carter on May 13, 2013 : star star star star
This was pretty good, I liked it; a fun and entertaining little story, akin to watching a movie that makes you scream at the stupid characters, "Don't go in the bloody cellar you idiot, there's a mad axeman hiding under the stairs!"

Mostly well-written, it could perhaps do with a tiny edit to clear up a few [mostly unimportant] typos.

I also thought that the last couple of hundred words could be happily lopped off with no loss to the story, having it end with [without giving the twist away]: "...this very INSTANT!". In my lowly opinion, this would have made a punchier and more memorable end to the tale; most of what follows is just labouring the point.

It is obvious from the cover [and the tags] that someone is a werewolf, so a good part of the surprise of the twist is lost. It then becomes a case of [because there are limited characters] Who Is The Werewolf? It is good that the story leads you to believe where the plot is going, then twists, but it is difficult with a short story to attain that surprise twist [with a novel it's a completely different kettle of haddock].

In one of my own stories the end-twist is that a guy is a zombie; the problem is that how do you get zombie-fans to read your story, without giving away or hinting at the ending, which in gimmicky-stories like mine and like Strange Strangers is the majority of the point. I was loathe to add "zombie" as a tag for my story, yet the people who might appreciate it most would not know that it had anything to do with zombies, whereas if I added zombie to the tags, then the reader would know pretty much straight-away what was going on and my surprise ending is ruined. The same sort of problem applies here to Strange Strangers, but I fully appreciate the puzzle of marketing your stories. Like a previous reviewer I did see a resemblance to Stephen King's story "Popsy", but more in the structure of the tale, not the plot.

Anyway, sorry for the long [perhaps irrelavant] review; in summary, a good story, I enjoyed reading it.
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Review by: Jonathan Antony Strickland on May 01, 2013 : star star star star
A good hairy horror tale. Very well written with a flow to the writing that will keep you intrigued throughout. Reminded me a bit of the short Steven King story "Popsy", with a differnt spin on a simular tale.
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Review by: Walter Lazo on June 14, 2012 : star star star star
Funny, scary and a bit gory, a fun read.
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