Demon Pumpkin I wrote Farmer Leon's Pumpkin Patch a few years back as a bit of hokum - a sort of a campfire story for Halloween, not to be taken too seriously.
Unfortunately, most of the earlier comments on EDF seemed to be focusing on the story's literary shortcomings, to such an extent that none of those folk who have commented so far have noticed something quite obvious - that the name of the owner of the pumpkin field, Leon Whale, is an anagram of 'Halloween'.
Alas, later comments took a turn towards couched accusations of racial insensitivity. Both main characters did come across as ignorant and bigoted, but that's the point of fiction - to expose human strengths and shortcomings through a story's characters
Anyhow this experience has taught me a lot; the link to my story is below:
http://www.everydayfiction.com/farmer-leons-pumpkin-patch-by-paul-a-freeman/#disqus_thread
Below are links to my Canterbury Tale published by Coscom Entertainment, my most recent Global Short Story Competition winner, my short-listed story for the National newspaper, Abu Dhabi's, annual short story competition and a story that appeared on the Every Day Fiction site - where you can leave a comment:
http://chaucers-uncle.weebly.com/index.html
http://www.inscribemedia.co.uk/assets/october-ebook.pdf
http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/short-story-a-day-for-decisiveness
http://www.everydayfiction.com/the-d-day-diorama-by-paul-a-freeman/#comments
Happy Writing!
Unfortunately, most of the earlier comments on EDF seemed to be focusing on the story's literary shortcomings, to such an extent that none of those folk who have commented so far have noticed something quite obvious - that the name of the owner of the pumpkin field, Leon Whale, is an anagram of 'Halloween'.
Alas, later comments took a turn towards couched accusations of racial insensitivity. Both main characters did come across as ignorant and bigoted, but that's the point of fiction - to expose human strengths and shortcomings through a story's characters
Anyhow this experience has taught me a lot; the link to my story is below:
http://www.everydayfiction.com/farmer-leons-pumpkin-patch-by-paul-a-freeman/#disqus_thread
Below are links to my Canterbury Tale published by Coscom Entertainment, my most recent Global Short Story Competition winner, my short-listed story for the National newspaper, Abu Dhabi's, annual short story competition and a story that appeared on the Every Day Fiction site - where you can leave a comment:
http://chaucers-uncle.weebly.com/index.html
http://www.inscribemedia.co.uk/assets/october-ebook.pdf
http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/short-story-a-day-for-decisiveness
http://www.everydayfiction.com/the-d-day-diorama-by-paul-a-freeman/#comments
Happy Writing!
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