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'Hunted' - A Twist in the Tale

10/23/2012

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My short story Hunted appears today in Everyday Fiction. It started off as a piece of flash fisction and I extended it from 350 to over 550 words.

Not wishing to give too much away, the storyline involves a young girl in a fairytale forest with a group of hunters on her trail.

The feedback from the EDF editors before publication was a bit mixed, so I'll be interested to see what the general word is from the regular readers.

http://www.everydayfiction.com/hunted-by-paul-a-freeman/#respond

Back to Canterbury Tales next week, when there should be some news.

Below are links to my two Global Short Story Competition winners, my short-listed story for the National newspaper, Abu Dhabi, and my Canterbury Tale published by Coscom Entertainment:

http://coscomentertainment.com/?p=159

http://www.globalshortstories.net/winningstoriesjuly09.pdf

http://www.globalshortstories.net/winningstoriesdec09.pdf

http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/short-story-a-day-for-decisiveness

Happy writing!

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Puzzled - A Ghost Story

10/14/2012

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Taj Mahal Jigsaw

Just in case you thought I haven't been doing much recently, well, I'm working on stories of around 700-800 words for submission to a particular magazine market - plus expanding those stories so they can fit certain competition guidelines if need be.

One of the stories I've been working on was suggested to me by a comment from my nine-year-old daughter, who was writing a story for school based on the prompt 'jigsaw Puzzle'.

Almost immediately I realised an innocuous-looking jigsaw puzzle could be the centrepiece of a ghost story, where an apparently unthreatening everyday object suddenly takes on a menacing life of its own. Lo and behold, within a day I'd submitted the finished story, Puzzled, much to the chagrin of my daughter who was still struggling with her own story.

Suffice to say, as is the tradition with many ghost stories, I leave the reader wondering if there really was some spectral presence involved in the spooky events surrounding my story, or whether there was a more natural explanation.

Well, so much for the update!

Below are links to my two Global Short Story Competition winners, my short-listed story for the National newspaper, Abu Dhabi, and my Canterbury Tale published by Coscom Entertainment:

http://coscomentertainment.com/?p=159

http://www.globalshortstories.net/winningstoriesjuly09.pdf

http://www.globalshortstories.net/winningstoriesdec09.pdf

http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/short-story-a-day-for-decisiveness

Happy writing!

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