All Comments on 'Homesick Halloween'

Nicely done! A fiver by any account!

What a wonderful love story ❤. I thoroughly enjoyed it! 5/5

A wonderful story and a pleasure to read.

5 stars

What sort of place does not have Dr Pepper with free refills. I never want to visit there now.

So sweet that I hardly even minded waiting for the sex.

OMG! This rang so many bells for me, I’m Welsh, married to an English Girl, plus I’ve worked for U.S. based companies and with Americans for over 30yrs, the culture clashes and phrasing differences are bang on in this, the humour had me crying with laughter in places, plus the gentle build of attraction between the two principals was so well done, the mental picture of a Thanksgiving dinner with British Christmas Crackers is one I’ll treasure for a long time!

Many thanks for writing this @Kumquatqueen, this is by far my favourite Halloween story for this year, cheers, Ppfzz. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

Glad you enjoyed it @Purplefizz - I figured some people would recognise the culture clash!

I had a couple kind readers who pointed out phrasing and outdated assumptions - and who claim that pumpkin pie is not associated with Halloween - the Great Pumpkin Festival as Snoopy taught us - at all in America, which I still struggle to believe!

This year, shops are covering all bases and trying to sell Halloween crackers with indoor fireworks inside!

Simply lovely!

Lovely story, so romantic. And so many familiar reference for me. Marshmallow peeps! Tufts, my old stamping ground! And, I actually have a dear friend who is post doc at Yale right now. She took me to visit the Yale Centre for British Art, and the Yale Art museum. Fabulous city, New Haven. And if I lived in New Haven, I’d take the train to visit the Hub of the Universe. (Boston, in case folks didn’t know.)

AFAIK pumpkin pie is not associated with Halloween. Halloween is just an ordinary day, not a holiday, so if it falls Monday to Friday, it’s a day you go to work. So, it’s not a holiday dominated by a meal, like thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter. (I know, I listed two Christian holidays there, so other religious groups have traditional meals on other holidays instead.)

Pumpkin pie is a thanksgiving tradition, certainly in the northeast. Supposedly down south they eat other types of pies, but I don’t know if that’s true ..

This was a lovely story! I quite enjoyed seeing our American bits mixed in with your British bits. (Uh... after typing that out, I am not at all surebit didn't take on an unintended meaning.) Anyway, whoever said there isn't a specific meal around Halloween was right. We usuallt hand out candy, or go around with kids collecting candy, or go to parties, or close our curtains, turn of all outside lights, and pray no one comes ringing our door bell. Tradition states that you do not visit any house without a lit porch or yard light. This doesn't seem to always work anymore.

Pumpkins are associated with Halloween, because we love to carved them into jack-o-lanterns. I suppose one could take in corpse's guts and pop them into a pie, but in practice I don't see it done much. I think many freeze the pumpkin to use at Thanksgiving.

Christmas, in my experience, has fruit, coconut cream, and pecan pies, than pumpkin. Pies are always welcome, even if it isn't a holiday. Down South they have peach pies and sweet potato pies, that are to die for. Once you taste a good sweet potato pie, you will wonder why you were wasting your time on pumpkin pie.

We do not have English puddings, or at least I never ran into one. We do seem to consider dumping chocolate pudding (soft goo) into a premade gram cracker pie crust, and then using spray on whipped cream on each piece as 'pie'. Ya, gelatin and whipped cream goes into store bought pie crusts too, usually with some sort of canned fruit or spreadable marshmellow topping. These cheap, lazy, mock pies are freaking delicious. Seriously.

My favorite fruit pie is strawberry rhubarb! I love Boston cream pies, Key lime pies, and especially sweet potato pies. Damnit, I really need some pie........ Cherry pie. Now it is stuck in my head.