The Pumpkins: A Short Story

The teacher talks about what kind of things they can see in the field trip ( Pumpkin Patch). Everyone wants to say something, but Rayle doesn’t show motivation to participate in the conversation. She is looking around the classroom. Then, the teacher asks her, are you excited to go to the Pumpkin Patch? She spends a minute thinking and after that, she says “I wannnnts to go”, “My daddy is goooooing, too”.

After they cut the top of the pumpkin off, Lilia asks Mr. Pirzada if he wants a frown or a smile on the face of letting her choose for her. While, Mr. Pirzada was cutting the pumpkin, the news came up of showing what's going on in Pakistan “The reporter’s face dripped with sweat as he relayed the information. He did not wear a tie or jacket, dressed instead as if he himself were about to take part in the

We all remember dressing up for Halloween night as children. Getting together with best friends and competing to see who has the best costume or can collect the most candy. For some, this was the best night of the year. Then there are the children who sit at home and go through the motions of what their parents do. These parents inevitably will carve a generic looking pumpkin and then sit down and hand out candy to kids the remainder of the night. The children that are staying at home with their parents are handing out candy to the kids who are living and enjoying their Halloween. As Mac Hammond in “Halloween” stresses, the children that are out having fun on Halloween are the true

Halloweentown is a fantasy land overflowing with ghosts, vampires, and witches. Jack is the leader of this town and is known as the “Pumpkin King”. Jack realizes he has grown tired of the same routine, and is faced with an identity crisis.

The story “Pumpkins” was first published in the journal “Western Humanities Review”. This journal accepts online submissions only, and charge a small submission fee. Flash fictions must be at 1,000 words or less, but authors can submit multiple submissions, as

It was Halloween night and Elizabeth was at the pumpkin patch picking the perfect pumpkin for the pumpkin carving contest on her street. She saw her best friend, Lindsey, down the street so she ran down to meet her.

cheating wife, who is murdered by her husband, then hid in a pumpkin shell, because

Francine Prose's short fictional piece, "Pumpkins," was about a therapist who was having an epiphany, with how this sudden incident that has happened in town, affects him so greatly. The short piece also played with the significance of the pumpkin in an interesting way. One thing that I noticed in my first read of Prose’s short piece was that it has a very serious and heavy tone. For example, just within the first two lines, “There was a terrible accident. A truck full of Halloween pumpkins is speeding…”. As well as the beginning sentence of paragraph two. The second thing that I had noticed in Prose’s piece was that the story was being told through the therapist perspective. Although it took me several reads to catch this, each time I read

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Vendors got in on the Halloween action, too, dressing up and handing out treats to children. Not all of the goodies were typical Halloween candies, however. As a Teal Pumpkin Project® event, some merchants

If you're looking for a good pumpkin, then don't choose me. I mean, who wants a pumpkin with three flaws. I wouldn't want to get a pumpkin with these flaws. The flaws I have are bad. I have holes, i'm smelly, and I am square.

I have not been to a pumpkin patch since, but I now no that when I do, maybe don´t hit the cashier in the face. And from now on I will always remember this day because I can't live it down in my

The film It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown shows the transition of Sparky's work from being just a newspaper cartoonist to a well known and published cartoonist who gets to build his story into TV specials. In the Halloween special, we had Charlie Brown get the short end of the stick by having a ghost costume with one too many eyes in it and getting only rocks for Halloween, Snoopy and his adventures of chasing the Red Baron, and a presence of the rest of the peanuts gang going to Violets party and Trick-or-Treating. First watching the Halloween special I did not see that it had much to do with religion, but looking at the special in a different aspect, and reading the chapter about Sparky's ideas and formation of the show I found

The witches tried to control them, but, nevertheless, they all just walked away from them into the shadows of the woods. And the only ones who stayed were the killer pumpkins, however, they were too close to the ground to provide all that much.