Aaron Ansah-Agyeman’s Chronicles Of The Stranger ============================ Chronicle Title: AFFLICTED ============================ Episode 1 There is merrymaking at the NYANTAKYI residence. It is the sixty-first birthday of Mr. KUSI NYANTAKYI, and a party has been organized for him. He is surrounded by family, friends and colleagues. His wife, SIKA NYANTAKYI, is looking resplendent in her all-white attire which matches her husband’s....
AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN’S AFFLICTED Episode 4 Chronicles of the Stranger continues… Reverend Obuobi is strutting around with a pompous and haughty pride. REV. OBUOBI (shouting) Hallelujah! Amen! Hallelujah!! Amen! Hallelujah!! CONGREGATION (screaming) AMEN! AMEN!! AMEEEENNN!! REV. OBUOBI Bring him his wife and his children now!! Mrs. Ampofo and her children, all crying, run toward their husband and...
© AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN Episode 8 AKOTO (voice trembling) Don’t do this to me, Kes, my love! I can’t live without you! You’re the only woman I love! Can’t you see what is happening here? This hypocrite is interested in you! He wants you, and that’s why he’s attacking and afflicting me! Don’t allow yourself to be swayed by this devil...
HE AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN © 2018 CHRONICLES OF THE STRANGER AFFLICTED Episode 12 The Stranger appears…things are going to heat up! Read on… They are a little scared, but Reverend Obuobi only laughs. REV. OBUOBI You have the impudence of an unbeliever, and of course I don’t want to taint the memory of my dead father with a show of vengeance,...
Aaron Ansah-Agyeman’s Chronicles Of The Stranger © 2017 ——————————————- Chronicle Title: CHILDLESS ========================== Episode 1 The doorbell chimes melodiously. PASTOR FIIFI ADDO mutes the sound of the television and stands up. He glances at the clock on the wall and sees that it is almost 11 p.m. A bit late for visitation, but he is a pastor, and he...
AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN THE CHRONICLES OF THE STRANGER © 2017 CHILDLESS Episode 5 He stands up, tall and foreboding, and then he begins to walk purposefully towards the podium. All eyes are fixed on him. There is something about him that arrests attention, a strange magnetic charisma that has a most powerful allure. It is not the unreal aura...
AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN CHRONICLES OF THE STRANGER CHILDLESS © 2017 Episode 9 KWABENA (defensively) Daddy! I love her! She’s been good to me! She took care of me and Mommy! She paid my exams fees with her profits! For the last couple of years we would’ve died if she hadn’t been there for us! OBAAPA TAKYIWAA (afraid) Tutu, don’t be...
Aaron Ansah-Agyeman’s Chronicles of the Stranger Chronicle Title: BETRAYED Episode 1 When sixty-five-year-old multimillionaire MR. KWAME AWUAH picks up the scissors lying on the small exquisite pillow and cuts the ribbon across the entrance of FOSUAA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL, he does not know that in just a few minutes he is going to witness something so terrible that it will...
AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN CHRONICLES OF THE STRANGER BETRAYED © 2017 Episode 4 She continues to cry until Maame Akosua coughs gently to get Enyonam’s attention. ENYONAM And, before I forget, here is the nurse who has been assigned to take care of you, Kwame. She is indeed a good woman and I’m sure you’re going to love her! Her name...
Aaron Ansah-Agyeman’s Chronicles Of The Stranger Chronicle Title: BETRAYED Episode 7 Location: THE HOSPITAL He listens to the wonderful things that Maame Akosua tells him. Things he had really never heard nor paid heed to, and although he could not utter a word or move any part of his body except his eyelids, he feels a deep peace within...
AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN THE CHRONICLES OF THE STRANGER Chronicle Title: BETRAYED © 2017 Episode 10 The mountain road that leads to the sprawling AWUAH RESIDENCE is a bit steep and curvy. On one side is a sheer mountain face, and on the other side is a dangerous drop to the rocks below. The drop is protected by metal railings....
AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN CHRONICLES OF THE STRANGER BETRAYED © 2017 Episode 13 Maame looks horrified. MAAME AKOSUA But isn’t that how the Lord works sometimes? Remember Paul used to be Saul, a man who hated the Lord! THE STRANGER Don’t you start quoting verses to me, woman! Nana Yaw is still moaning, making sounds of great pain. The stranger...
Aaron Ansah-Agyeman’s Chronicles of the Stranger Chronicle Title: DEATH ROW Episode 1 Location: THE APPEALS COURT The courtroom is very quiet. Some people are weeping and murmuring, but the sound they are making is low. The courtroom is totally full; both lower and upper terraces are filled with people. This has been a case which has been short but...
Aaron Ansah-Agyeman’s Chronicles of the Stranger Chronicle Title: DEATH ROW Episode 5 Her parents look at the stranger who has now walked past the journalists and is climbing up to the podium where the Elder is still speaking. AGYA KOFI (softly) There is… there is something about him… yes, something… The stranger is approaching Elder Senanu. All eyes...
Aaron Ansah-Agyeman’s Chronicles of the Stranger Chronicle Title: DEATH ROW Episode 9 The people in the room remain fixed, unable to move until the stranger has gone outside, gotten into his car and ridden away. That is when they are finally are able to get out of their seats. MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT (screaming) FIND THAT MAN! I WANT...
Suicidal is now served…. AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN THE CHRONICLES OF THE STRANGER SUICIDAL EPISODE 1 Perhaps, in a really morbid kind of way, life really began for Juliana Dorman when she was thirty years old. That was the day –the exact day, actually – when she lost both of her parents in the most violent of ways, leaving her so...
Suicidal continues… AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN THE CHRONICLES OF THE STRANGER SUICIDAL EPISODE 3 Julie was the only daughter of her mother, but she had two step-siblings on her father’s side. Her father, Mr. Bless Dorman, had had a former wife with whom he had two children, Abednego and Sandra. Abednego was forty-six years old, whilst Sandra was forty-four. Both of...
Suicidal is now continuing… AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN THE CHRONICLES OF THE STRANGER SUICIDAL EPISODE 5 After more than two hours, they brought Julie back to the ward. She listened to the doctor, and she refused to cry again. She knew that if she started crying, she would never stop, and would simply die from crying. They told her that...
Suicidal is running… AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN THE CHRONICLES OF THE STRANGER SUICIDAL EPISODE 7 Even as she seemed to be burning up, the excruciating pain tearing up her insides and making her scream silently in pure agony, Julie noted that the stranger in the room was an extremely handsome young man. He was wearing black Levi jeans and a black...
Suicidal is now running… AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN THE CHRONICLES OF THE STRANGER SUICIDAL EPISODE 8 Akwasi Dapaah came in and found Doctor Twumasi Dei sitting on the floor and weeping. The young man was taken aback, and listened with increasing disbelief as the doctor and Julie told him about the strange man who had waltzed into the ward and turned...
Suicidal is running… AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN THE CHRONICLES OF THE STRANGER SUICIDAL EPISODE 9 Doctor Twumasi Dei, who had become very close to Julie now, informed her that it would be necessary for her to be discharged from the hospital so that he could give her medical attention at his private clinic. “The costs here are running into frightful proportions,”...
Suicidal is on… AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN THE CHRONICLES OF THE STRANGER SUICIDAL EPISODE 10 Two days later, with monies contributed by Doctor Twumasi Dei and Akwasi Dapaah to settle her medical bills, Julie was released from the hospital. She was still paralyzed from the waist down, and an uncertain future faced her. Hurt, confused, betrayed, heart-broken and absolutely dejected, Julie...
Suicidal once again… AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN THE CHRONICLES OF THE STRANGER SUICIDAL EPISODE 11 Jacob and Sandra looked up suddenly and saw Akwasi approaching. Jacob’s eyes went to Akwasi’s car, and a sheepish look came to his face when he saw the ashen face of Julie through the clear windscreen. He released Sandra, who came forward with a dark expression,...
Suicidal is running… AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN THE CHRONICLES OF THE STRANGER SUICIDAL EPISODE 12 Julie admitted that Akwasi Dapaah had a beautiful home. It was a flat, sprawling building with a lot of green grassy patches, replete with even a small garden. “Your own place?” she asked with surprise when he drove into the yard and parked. The young man...
Suicidal is cruising…. AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN THE CHRONICLES OF THE STRANGER SUICIDAL EPISODE 13 Everybody in the house was crying when Akwasi carried Julie out of the door. Adobea could barely breathe as she pushed the electronic wheelchair out and Akwasi gently put Julie in it. Maame Baaba knelt on both knees and hugged Julie fiercely. “Oh, Julie,...
Suicidal is trending… AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN THE CHRONICLES OF THE STRANGER SUICIDAL EPISODE 14 A lot of people screamed when Julie pulled the trigger. The Chief Inspector took several steps away with horror. Even Abednego shut his eyes at the last moment, and Jacob fell forward with a horrifying grunt. The judge put his face flat on the bench and...
Suicidal is airborne… AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN THE CHRONICLES OF THE STRANGER SUICIDAL EPISODE 15 Julie was not afraid anymore. Somehow, as she sat calmly and listened to the stunned judge remanding her in a cell for two days without bail so that she would give serious thoughts about returning the money she had supposedly stolen, she knew deep within her...
Suicidal is blazing… AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN THE CHRONICLES OF THE STRANGER SUICIDAL EPISODE 16 It was late afternoon when Julie walked through the luxurious lounge of Dorman Capitals. Most of the top executives were present, and so were members of the Board of Directors. These were men and women who had been made rich by Mr. Bless Dorman, and who...
Suicidal is served… AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN THE CHRONICLES OF THE STRANGER SUICIDAL EPISODE 17 Much later, when Julie walked into the conference room on the fifth floor of Dorman Towers with a smiling Jacob Acquah behind her, she paused suddenly and looked around the room with her heart beating hard with trepidation. It was a beautiful conference room, reserved for...
Suicide closes the curtains… AARON ANSAH-AGYEMAN THE CHRONICLES OF THE STRANGER SUICIDAL FINAL EPISODE Akwasi Dapaah stood and watched all that was going on with wonder on his face. He saw Julie being hugged tightly by Mrs. Opoku Agyeman as both of them shed tears, and he watched Mr. Opoku Agyeman putting his arms around both of them and...
Aaron Ansah-Agyeman’s Chronicles of the Stranger Chronicle Title: BROKEN VOWS Episode 1 Location: THE DIVORCE COURT There is a divorce hearing inside the courtroom. Outside in the lounge, the families of Takyi Barima and Afia Agyeibea are also waiting tensely. Their case is going to be called next. Afia had started a painful divorce process against her husband, Takyi,...
Aaron Ansah-Agyeman’s Chronicles of the Stranger Chronicle Title: BROKEN VOWS Episode 4 THE STRANGER Well it is! AFIA (hollowly) And the woman behaved differently? She behaved differently to how I’m behaving? THE STRANGER Well, yes. Compared to your case, all of them behaved differently! There is a silence, and then the elderly stranger suddenly stands up, gives a slight...
Aaron Ansah-Agyeman’s Chronicles of the Stranger Chronicle Title: BROKEN VOWS Episode 7 Yaw Kuntu sat for a long time in deep thought, and then he leaned forward and looked at the two of them. YAW KUNTU You’re both right, of course. After meeting A.T. I’ve come to the realization that I’ve never stopped loving her. I do need her...
Aaron Ansah-Agyeman’s Chronicles of the Stranger Chronicle Title: BROKEN VOWS Episode 10 Location: THE DIVORCE COURT The stranger looks at the faces of his listeners with a great grin on his face. They all look stunned. Naa Shormei is visibly the worst affected as tears slowly course down face. Afia is staring, horrified, shaking her head numbly. AFIA...
