Pumpkin 2: Carve or Be Carved

by Benson Phillip Lott

Jackie Sterling is used to getting everything she's wanted. Pretentious, self-centered and thinking she's better than everyone else, she's quick to put people in their place and make them feel small. After all, she's beautiful and should be adored. When Jackie finds herself at a local pumpkin patch just before Halloween, her tolerance for those around her reaches a fever pitch. However, she's about to learn a very deadly lesson from a force that's no stranger to getting its point across...and it's got a terrible plan for Jackie. This is Book 2 in Benson Phillip Lott's PUMPKIN series.

19 pages, ebook

First published June 25, 2011

Reviews

[Benson Lott · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm not gonna give myself a review (even though I did 5 stars I couldn't help myself) because of course I'm gonna say: Yeah it's great, it's genius! Buy it! Buy a hundred copies of it! Pass it out at social gatherings. Give it to your grandmother. No. I just felt like writing my experience with these tales because I think it's interesting. The first Pumpkin took me 45 minutes to write. The second Pumpkin took me about two weeks. The third took me almost two years and Untreeds and I are still editing the manuscript. For one reason, it's significantly longer than the first two, but also, as I go along, I go deeper and deeper into examining the human condition. My goal is to put all three stories together in a trilogy so people can see just how far down I really went to get to the darkness of the human soul. At the same time, I really had fun writing from Jackie's perspective. She's the kinda girl you hate and yet wish you were. By that I mean, we all want beauty and brains and status, but those things easily create pride and pride often leads to feelings of better than. Not that pride is a bad thing. At least not in my beliefs, but I wont get into that. I love The Pumpkin because he (it) puts people in their place. He (it) is, for me anyway, the self destructive side of my mind. I've led a very self destructive life until recently and what's changed me is the realization that if I put all those twisted, rejected thoughts to use, I can turn the tables and create something out of all the suppressed emotions I feel. Everybody has a "pumpkin" voice inside them, it's how you utilize it that determines your fate.