'Rapt' Accepted for Publication

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I've just filled out an invoice for an odd little story called Rapt, which is a commentary on this age of mass social (antisocial) media. It's also one of the only stories I've written that seems to compel the reader to re-read the story to join the dots and fill in the blanks (that's two cliches in one sentence, by the way - not bad, hey!).

I still recall when, if you saw someone talking to themselves in the street, you gave them a wide berth. These days, if you're not jabbering away to yourself in the street, you're the odd one out - and that's the premise behind the story.

Anything else will give the story away, so I'll leave it at that.

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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