pumpkin

Oct 2022 8

Calypso, Corpses, and Cooking By Raquel V. Reyes: Review/Giveaway/Guest Post

2022 Articles, Cynthia Chow, Food Fun, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Cynthia Chow
& Raquel V. Reyes

As the fall season approaches, Coral Shores, Florida, prepares for Halloween and the many celebrations of its multicultural community. Former New Yorker Miriam Quiñones-Smith and her husband Robert are dressing up for their son’s school Fall Festival where her cooking show’s Spanish language network is hosting a food booth. Miriam is happy to present her Caribbean foods now that she is the host of YouTube’s Abuela Approved and has her Cocina Caribeña featured regularly on a morning TV show, but a shadow looms with the appearance of Lois Pimpkin.

Sep 2016 24

Pumpkin Picking with Murder By Auralee Wallace: Review/Giveaway

2016 Articles, Cynthia Chow, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Cynthia Chow

Eight years ago, Erica Bloom fled Otter Lake in embarrassment, leaving behind her reputation as Boobsie Bloom, the daughter of a hippie and the girl who accidentally flashed an audience during the Raspberry Social. In Chicago Erica was able to blend in anonymously as anyone she wanted to be, whereas in New Hampshire she was the quick-tempered, stressed-out, daughter of a hippy. She’s put those issues behind her—mostly—and has returned for one week in the hopes of resolving her long distance relationship with former crush Sheriff Grady Forrester.

Oct 2012 20

Halloween Hash and a Fake Pumpkin Pie Dessert

2012 Articles, Food Fun, Margaret Mendel

by Margaret Mendel

I don’t know of any fruit or vegetable that announces a changing season as does the pumpkin. When pumpkins show up in the market I know that Halloween is only weeks away and that soon there’ll be a range of festivities: family gatherings, friends coming together for food and drink, a time for gift giving, and then the year ends with champagne and an explosion of fireworks.

Oct 2011 22

Pumpkin Jean’s Victims: An Original Mystery Short Story

2011 Articles, Contributors, Mysteryrat's Maze

by Radine Trees Nehring

Hope you all enjoy this fun, Halloween mystery short story by Radine Trees Nehring. Pumpkin Jean's Victims was first published in an anthology, Mysteries of the Ozarks, Volume III last winter. Pumpkin Jean is based on a real person who is a Halloween fixture at Ozark Folk Center State Park.

Oct 2011 15

Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About Pumpkins

2011 Articles, Contributors, Food Fun, Margaret Mendel

by Margaret Mendel

Pumpkins frequently appear in literature, too, and here are just a few instances. There is of course, Cinderella and her grand pumpkin carriage. For many years Charles M. Schulz delighted us with his Peanuts cartoon strip and Linus’ belief in the Great Pumpkin. There is the pumpkin throwing Headless Horseman in Washington Irving’s The Legend of Sleepy Hallow. And most recently pumpkins have appeared in the Harry Potter books and movies where the students of Hogwart’s School of Witchcraft and Wizardry partake of a favorite beverage, pumpkin juice.