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"Farmer Leon's Pumpkin Patch" Published by EDF

10/28/2014

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PictureDemon 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! 

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More Foresight

10/1/2014

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PictureCoconut Palms
I've just had a story, titled Foresight, accepted by Fiction Feast, a popular British magazine that publishes short stories. The readership base is largely female, so it was a pleasant surprise that my quirky supernatural tale got accepted.

The story involves tropical islands, food poisoning and Andy Murray - I told you it was quirky!

Anyhow, it's great that I've infiltrated another market, especially one so well known, and hopefully I'll be able to sell Fiction Feast some of my other work in future.

Fingers crossed.

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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    Paul A. Freeman works in Abu Dhabi, in the Middle East. He lives there with his wife and youngest child.

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