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Rated: ASR | (4.5)
Dear Mike,

Some time ago, you had submitted this item in one of my review request forums. I am sorry that I was unable to review this at that time. I am Taher, and I think your preface says it all. The fact that you wrote it when you were younger does not change the fact that this is a well-written item and explores the mind of a lonely person very adequately. At a few points, I did feel a "kinship" with you, for I, too, am, at heart, a loner, though not alone. My wife and I have been together now for over 18 years, and yet, I let myself be alone to ruminate. I liked your metaphors of climbing over personal walls a lot.

Thank you for sharing this with us.

Taher

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Rated: 18+ | (5.0)
Dear Bob,

Thank you for pointing us to your story through the action NL. This is a fantastic story of spooks, mystery, drama, action, deceit and clairvoyance speaking through the heart and mind of a writer who visits a house with a bloody past. I enjoyed the story because you have used some great devices like a swing between the past and the present and the use of a different font for telling us about these things. Carolina never appeared to be mentally slow at any point in the story. Nor did her father seem to be particularly villainish. In the end, we are talking about some very normal characters in the grip of unusual surroundings and even stranger circumstances. The story's setting reminded me of Heathcliff and his heroine in the famous classic of yore, Wuthering Heights.

Thank you for sharing this with us.

- drtaher

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Rated: E | (4.5)
Dear Sid ,

Hi. I am Taher, and I think this is probably the poem that tells me about the romance in your life and how it went astray. As a fellow Indian, I just know there has to be a caste/religion angle to this whole thing, and I can assure you that if you keep the flame of love burning, your union with the girl of your dreams cannot be stopped even by God. I married a Sikh woman against her family's wishes. It's been 20 years since we married, and I don't regret it one bit. My parents in law were okay with us after a few years.

This is a good poem. Although not with a perfect meter or rhyme, I have rated it so high because I know it is written from the heart.

Take care, and God Bless.

- Taher

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Rated: E | N/A (Review only item.)
Dear Samboy,

Hi. I am Taher, and I am a competitor too, in PWW. I am the team leader of "Team India. This is a wonderful tale, and I loved the way you recited the legend of the colouring of all the birds. I did, however, feel that the item needs a spell check and someone to look at the words and the way they have been used, for example, the word "begun", which should be "began" at both the places where it is used. I trust you will take this critique in a friendly way, for I mean you well. Good luck in the contest!

= drtaher

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Rated: E | (5.0)
Dear SW Poet,

Greetings from Taher, Team Leader for "Team India. Your poem is so well formatted! You mourn things that have changed for the modern times, and yet, you show us, in passing, the things that we loved and which we have left behind. I disagree with the premise that our generation was rigid: it was not rigid, but it preserved and treasured that which was obtained with some effort and that which was valuable or considered to be so for the future generations.

I wish you all the best in the judging!

Taher

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Rated: E | (4.0)
Dear IGWOOTEN ,

Hello from a fellow SP member! I am Taher, and chose you as one of the reviewees for the SP review challenge.

This is a cute poem of Christmas that tells about the various sights and sounds that accompany the tree and the expectations of a normal person - namely, the receipt of a gift - from Santa Claus. Your verse was easy to read and very nice to listen to when recited aloud. Good job, except that it seemed as though it is written from the POV of a child, or is meant to be read for children. Am I correct?

Thank you for sharing this with us!

= drtaher

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Review of The Magic Shop  
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Rated: 13+ | (4.5)
Hi rakun!

I am Taher, and I am a Simply Positive challenger, so here I am to review an item from a fellow SP member. At the outset, let me say that my selecting you was a random act; my selecting this particular story was not, though, as it was highlighted by you in your own port.

The story must mean something special to you, else you would not have highlighted it! After reading it, I realised that it is, indeed, a special item, for it demystifies what is, to many people all over the world, a poorly understood phenomenon, viz. magic.A very appropriate ending was given, and that made me go for the near perfect rating that I have given this item. Well written indeed.

- drtaher

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Review of 'It'  
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Rated: 13+ | (5.0)
Dear Sue,

Congratulations on being placed in a large poetry writing contest. I can see that you really deserved it, because the poem is very well written. The meter is perfect, the rhyme is good, and the words make a perfect cadence that will surely sound great when recited aloud. I do not know, of course, what the "it" must be, but I can see the way you went about it, ending in the finale of man's indomitable spirit and the value of Time healing all wounds.

- drtaher

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Review of Eclipse  
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Rated: E | (4.5)
Dear Sue,

One of the most wonderful things in the world is to look at an evolving eclipse through proper glasses. Beyond the science of how lunar eclipses occur, there is an abundant quantity of literature that is available on what things are associated with the occurrence of eclipses such as the foreboding, the ill luck of many who venture out during one, the ill-effects the eclipse can have on an unborn baby, and so on. So many superstitions and old wives' tales!

You have really painted a beautiful image of the eclipsed person and the climate and environs that an eclipse can create around it.

Thank you for sharing this with us.

=drtaher

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Rated: E | (5.0)
Dear Joy,

What an amazing poem this was! I know it is a somewhat older item from your port, but it sure isn't "faded" or in need of "retirement". The words tell us so much, not just about the game, but also about central park, the climate, the men who think of themselves as champions in their own right, and their emotions that jump out at the reader tthrough and in between the lines.

My favourite lines are the beginning two lines of the last stanza and the last line of the second stanza. Well written!

Dr. Taher

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In affiliation with SIMPLY POSITIVE GROUP  
Rated: E | (4.5)
Dear Jenny,

Hi. This is Taher, and I am here to review this small but strong story as a challenger in Simply Positive Forum. Yours is review no. 4, so it was only apt that this was one of the four stories in one of your folders! Okay ... so a warm summer day suddenly transforms into a snow storm, and just as suddenly turns back into a normal day. Was it a dream, and did you imagine this, you ask the reader, and then go on to supply us with the incredible answer that it was Father Winter giving the earth below it a "Good bye" gale, as it were, and then speeding off to another part of the globe.

Is that a viable way for a season to behave? I don't know. But you certainly made it seem so.

Thank you for sharing this with us!

- drtaher

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In affiliation with SIMPLY POSITIVE GROUP  
Rated: E | (5.0)
Dear Judy,

Truly, miracles are little events of life that defy logic. As a pediatrician, I have seen many children having fits, and Jason's case fits in very well with what we call "febrile convulsions". Usually, these fits are self-limited and lead to complete recovery. If that is the case, I would quit worrying. Some children though, do get many such fits -- almost one with every illness that causes fever, and that, my friend, is surely terrible, because repeated fits can even slow down a child's brain.

Of course, your belief that your son's life was saved by the act or will of God -- is just that: a belief. But belief turns into faith when events such as the one you experienced that night cause our own near and dear ones' lives to be drastically changed. Which is what happened with Jason and you.

Thank you for sharing this with us.

= drtaher

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In affiliation with SIMPLY POSITIVE GROUP  
Rated: E | (4.5)
Dear Judy,

I have no doubt almost all of us remember doing stupid things in childhood. I carry some of the trophies even today. For example, the day I decided to dare a friend and tried to cross a road with my eyes closed ... I have a scar on the forehead where I hit a sharp "Keep Left" board on the central divider! You have indeed re-awakened some of my old memories!

Thank you for sharing this simple item with us. Your anecdotes were so funny and so realistic! Kids do behave in this way. Seeing a super-hero jump from great heights, a child in my city jumped out of his home and killed himself. Such tragic outcomes can also ensue as a result of immature thinking.

- Taher

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In affiliation with WDC Frontliners Group  
Rated: ASR | (4.5)
Dear Khalish,

What you have written is true. It is backed by so much data that thousands of Americans, disenchanted with Bush, finally voted the other party into power. And did the U.S. fall because of Saddam? No, national calamities wrought havoc on the U.S. in 2007 and 2008, and the mega-banks finally drove in the nail that brought about not just the collapse of U.S. economy, but a worldwide recession that is still causing agony, financial ruin, worldwide suicides and stock market crashes. The worst may be over, yes, but no one will forgive the world's biggest and most powerful free country for a systems failure that they either did not anticipate, or perhaps gave hidden support to.

-Thank you for sharing this with us.

Taher

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Review of Eyes of Ice  
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Rated: 13+ | (4.0)
Dear Elvy,

Almost all through the reading, I kept wondering what the story was about. At the end, I am still wondering the same thing. Although this is a very well-written tale, and deserves a high rating (which I have given), I am not too sure it is a complete story. You have "enigmatised" the woman so much, I was waiting for something, anything, which would "decipher" the woman for me. That never happened. The reader is left hanging: before an attempt could be made to explain why the extremely desirable woman is so icy and so "aloof", you snatch her existence away in a mindless violent accident. If this were an assignment given to you by someone and someone else's life depended on it, this story seems to be like an act of cheating where the person doing the assignment pulls wool over the eyes of the reader and escapes with good language, but little else.

I am sorry, but you did ask for an honest opinion.

On the positive side, the story, as I have said earlier, had a good mix of light stuff, mystery, romance, and so on. I personally think that the title is indeed appropriate for the story, and I would not change it. Thanks for sharing a pet writing project with us, the readers of WDC.

Taher

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Review of Death of MJ  
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Rated: ASR | (3.0)
Dear Dev,

Hi from a fellow-Mumbaikar. Welcome to WDC, the amazing site for writers and readers! I hope you are enjoying yourself with the membership. This item was listed among the "Read A Newbie" links on the front page of WDC today, and hence, I am here.

I know Michael Jackson died a few weeks ago, but I personally feel that in the context of the present story, his appearance does not mean anything. It sort of detracts one's attention from the main story. I would leave him out. Readers can definitely live with that!

- Taher

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Rated: 13+ | (4.5)
Magical inspiration, indeed! The Muse is something that strikes at the point of least resistance and at the most unexpected moment. Audra, I just loved this story. This is just how a person may seek inspiration, but in real life, inspiration lies all around us: the trees, the earth beneath your feet ... they all speak to us, as does the sussuration of the wind and the tinkle of flowing brooks. Your best line is the most obvious line in the story: "I had asked for inspiration, and had been shown myself

Thank you for sharing this with us.

Taher

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In affiliation with SIMPLY POSITIVE GROUP  
Rated: E | (5.0)
Dear Audra,

What a lovely story this one was! I am a little familiar with the quirks of ASD children, but have not met someone with Asperger's who had such deep understanding and superior intelligence. In that sense, as Master Charles' teacher would have said, "Thanks for teaching me". There was one line in the whole story that needs to be re-written as it is grammatically incorrect: your line was:

>>In fact, the only thing I could read from his expression was perhaps bewilderment as to why not everyone would behave as he had<<. Kindly change that to: In fact, the only thing I could read from his expression was, perhaps, bewilderment as to why everyone else had not behaved the way he had.<<

That's all. Thank you.

Taher

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Review of Good Conversation  
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Rated: 13+ | (4.5)
Hi Audra,

I am Taher, and I am reviewing you for your win in the auction earlier. I glanced at your stories folder, and find that nearly every story here is already an awarded item! Wow, you must be really gifted! This story is an interesting conversation item between a small town lady and a young visitor who is ashamed to profess to others that he is a teacher. The background of the story was okay, but the reader would like to understand better what the woman is up to every single evening.

The "bold" words seem to be some kind of prompts to write this story, but since there is no link to any contest anywhere, I think it might be wiser to remove the bold ML. The only line in italics has a slightly weak structure, as the entire story is in the past tense. Perhaps, you would like to re-conjugate it as - "She found it remarkable that a few laughs, a good ....could do a lot to improve the day".

Taher

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Review of So Far Gone  
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Rated: E | (4.5)
Dear Jenny,

Thanks to this item, I finally know your real name. Hi. This is Taher, and I am reviewing this item as it was featured today on the WDC main page. Regrettably, this item is almost three years old, but, fortunately, I can see that you have made an addendum just over three weeks ago and updated your condition for the readers' benefit. Seronegative RA has a better outcome than the RA factor positive patients. Hence, it is understandable that you are doing better now than then. I think everyone has two or three phases in their lives when medical disasters strike them one after another, either they themselves, or other members of their immediate family, causing life to correct its course or, sometimes, financial difficulties that take long to recover.

Well-written account. I wonder why you call it a story, Unless this is fiction. *Smile*

Taher

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Review of Independence Day  
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Rated: 18+ | (5.0)
Dear Shannon,

Hi. This is Taher here, and this is a review for a couple of contests and the Simply Positive Group. One of the oldest sins of humans: infidelity. And yet, go one species down and you see male Chimps and Gorillas having harems of she-apes to use at their pleasure! I suppose that what differentiates us from the apes is faith and fidelity.

What a nice presentation this item had! A lovely picture, a large-easy-to-read font, and a story that was almost totally free of errors. You have done a brilliant job writing an age-old tale of infidelity.

- drtaher

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Review of Fireworks  
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Rated: E | (3.5)
Dear Em,

Hi. This is Taher, and I am here to review this story that was featured on one of the main side bars of the WDC pages. Actually, this is a very good story! It tells the emotional impact of a commonplace incident in the lives of two different persons, both strange in their own way. The bursting of fireworks is sort of symbolic of the emotional connect that it helps establish in the hearts of the main protagonists. The ending is sweet and leaves hope for the readers.

The only suggestion I would like to give you is to space out the lines from one quote to the other. That will make the story more easily readable. Other than that, this is an entirely believable and above average story .

Take care, and Write On!

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Rated: E | (3.5)
Dear Tim,

Hi. This is Taher, and I am happy to review this interesting poem for you. This poem follows a standard monorhyme per stanza format, and most of the lines and stanzas have very good cadence and flow well like a song. I enjoyed the poem almost fully. I say almost, because, at a few places, finding the correct rhyming word became more important to you than giving the reader a good line. And that makes the difference between poets like us and the timeless great poets of the world.

To give you an example: the lines ending with art and tart seemed contrived to fit the rhyme; so did the lines ending with ends and sends. In fact, "her cherished mind ends with the rigid, cool affection her old family sends" made no sense whatever.

Please, Tim, don't be offended at my review as I am trying to only be honest with you. This poem is certainly above average, but it needs a lot of improvement to make it really good!

- drtaher

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Review of The Heretic Son  
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Rated: E | (4.0)
Hi T.J.,

Welcome to Writing.com, the cyber-space's best site for reading and writing. How have the first 10 days been for you? Interesting? Overwhelming? Or simply too much to describe? *Bigsmile*

This poem is a faithful description of a wayward human who realises that he lived a wrong life nearly at the end of his own presence on earth. I have no issues with the words, but you could shorten line 1 of the second stanza, uncapitalise the word stumbling, and add an apostrophe to the words "Fathers" and "Mothers".

Good poem, Write on!

-Taher

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Review of Exercise Day  
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Rated: E | (4.5)
Dear Fellow-gymmer,

Wow! It must be fantastic to step into a pool and then a jacuzzi straight after the work-out! Hi. I am Taher, and I am here to review this on behalf of many of the groups I am associated with. Your descriptions are as real as the actual workouts we do, my friend. There were a few lines in the verse that I could not fathom. What have work-outs got to do with butterflies? My favourite line: "A beached whale is all they need". *Laugh*

Thank you for sharing this poem with us!

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