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The Pick Up

Posted by Paul Samael on Sunday, March 24, 2013, In : Writing fiction 

 

Just published “The Pick Up”, a long-ish short story (11,000 words) which is in some respects a companion piece to “The Hardest Word” (although it deals with very different subject matter).

If I’m lucky enough to get much of a response, I will be interested to see how readers react to the incident in the playground which is at the centre of the story.  If people don’t believe it could happen, that may mean that I haven’t described it convincingly enough – because it is based o...

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Paul Samael Welcome to my blog, "Publishing Waste" which will either (a) chronicle my heroic efforts to self-publish my own fiction; or (b) demonstrate beyond a scintilla of doubt the utter futility of (a). And along the way, I will also be doing some reviews of other people's books and occasionally blogging about other stuff.
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