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Incident in Mindanao
Author: Shabbadew2002
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(Added on May 14, 2008)
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A woman is arrested and tortured in front of her teenaged son. |
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| Reviewer:
Fessanessa
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Feb 9, 2011 |
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An incredibly well-written and powerful story on several levels. The story is told primarily as a first-person account within a news story of a professor sexually tormented and tortured by authorities in the Philippines in front of her teenage son. I mention this because the tone and voice of the narrative are perfectly constructed with exquisitely meticulous attention to detail, just as physical descriptions of actions--described in that voice--are perfectly rendered. I should note that I am a professor with a teenage son, with a similar sense of modesty and propriety, and I was utterly enthralled by how well the authored captured what I would have been thinking, feeling and how I would have expressed and described it, word by word, phrase by phrase, mortified thought and feeling by thought and feeling. It was like the author was inside my head in this imagined situation and knew exactly how I would react and feel. Amazing! Remarkably, this accomplishment by the author parallels the way the tormentor/interrogator is able to get into the head of the female protagonist and her son in the story and skillfully manipulate them. At the same time, in telling most of the story in the woman's voice, an amazingly empathetic authenticity is maintained, so that, at least for me, as a professor and a mother, I felt as if I was there and her, and the boy was my son. As such, I felt the same tormenting shame and humiliation as the woman described at her arousal and her son's tormented arousal because of my arousal at reading the story and knowing/wondering about how myself and my son would react in the same situation. This emotional/sexual effect was made even more pronounced by the way the author fiendishly gave the woman the admirable dignity and integrity of refusing to falsely confess, making it seductively so easy to identify and empathize with her, before using it against her in story and thereby turning it against us, the reader, as we succumb to the sadomasochistically arousing power of this astoundingly well-constructed story. And just as the woman and her son are devastated in the story, so, as readers, are we... Or at least me. I am not exaggerating when I say that this story, like others by this author, are both disturbingly arousing and--yes, I mean this--nothing less than artistic masterpieces. (10/10)
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- Replied by:
shabbadew2002
(Edit) (Feb 9, 2011)
- This story, as well as Perla and Benito, was inspired by Carlo. Glad you enjoyed it. The review is terrific. Thank you.
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