Welcome to my website

My name is Deborah Freeman. I am a playwright, short story writer, and an occasional poet. I freelance occasionally as a journalist, and run writing groups. I am available as a speaker on a selection of topics.

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Welcome to my website

My name is Deborah Freeman and I am a playwright. I also write stories and some poetry.  I freelance occasionally as a journalist, and run writing groups. I am available as a speaker on a selection of topics.

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Short Stories

‘Tell it Not,` a collection of my short stories, will be published in January 2022 by Red Heifer Press, CA. Seventeen stories, of which more than half have already appeared in journals, anthologies or websites. 

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Latest Posts

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Further Reflections on Parsley
October 5, 2021

Whenever I think to myself…time for further reflections, I am taken back to my childhood. We laughed at so many things, my parents, my sisters and I, and [...]

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Age of Confidence. Must google this title….
September 29, 2021

Tomorrow the book entitled `Age of Confidence, the new Jewish culture wave,` is published. I note that the publisher The History Press, and other outlets – from Amazon [...]

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Spoons, Tunnels, and Indescribable Prejudices.
September 11, 2021

Someone posted a cartoon – I only glanced at it, finding it so repulsive I clicked `off` immediately – showing the recent escape from an Israeli prison of [...]

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My Play Candlesticks.
September 2, 2021

Autumn is approaching. Technically it`s already here. There are only five stories left from my collection that need further editing – by me, that is, before I send [...]

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That same beginning! In The White Lotus. Unbelievable!
August 17, 2021

What surprises me, time and again, is not just that this ubiquitous plot motif continues to underlie series after series, story after story, plot after plot – the [...]

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Hit and Run. With that usual endless recurring motif, twice over, or is it thrice?
August 11, 2021

Defeated by the new lifestyle that we, like so many others, seem to be living, we return to Netflix from time to time, and see what`s there. As [...]

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Age of Confidence: The New Jewish Culture Wave.
July 31, 2021

I didn`t know there was a new Jewish culture wave, and neither did I know we were in what could be called `an age of confidence.` But I [...]

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Not again! That ubiquitous plot motif!
July 23, 2021

I have never before written two blogs in one day, but this evening I was vaguely looking through `Whats On` and found a series recommended by The Times [...]