Pile of Leaves: Stories of a Rake

Seventeen short stories

Available in paperback on Amazon: $4.29

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Available on Kindle $2.99

Available in audiobook at ACX


Prices subject to change

Originally published in 2011, this volume includes some classics such as Through Train, Audience, and Hold the Pickle. The style is stark and free of frills and cultural innuendo, born of years teaching ESL.

Pile of Leaves: Stories of a Rake includes the following short stories:
Pile of Leaves (2008), Audience (2007), omg wtf tmi (2009), Freshly Doug (2008), Lion's Tale (2008), Good Provider (2009), Hold the Pickle (2009), Check Your Mirrors (2007),  Reasonable Doubt (2009), The Sun Sets on the Western Horizon (2008), Through Train (2006), The Old Home Place (2007), Big Mac and Fries (2008), House of Bricks (2009), Freedom of Speech (2008), Come What May (2009), and Night on the Town (2006).

e pluribus haiku 2012

now available in paperback on Amazon

also on kindle.

Over 600 haiku from 50 states, most from an epic journey in the 70's. All are in the 5-7-5 syllable format, so that the entire of body of work has unity. They started with the idea that North American haiku, because of the diversity of the land, should have geographical clues as well as season clues (kigo).

e pluribus haiku 2012

e pluribus haiku 2012 originally appeared on kindle on July 4, 2012.

This image is of the Haiku steps in Hawaii, but has been changed for the paperback version. The 2012 e pluribus haiku has over 600 haiku from 50 states and an epic journey in the 1970's. There are paper, self-printed copies still available from the author at leverett @ siu.edu.

Pile of Leaves: Stories of a Rake

Now available on Kindle.

Published in 2011, it includes 17 short stories written over a five-year period. Paper copy is available, but harder to get and more expensive.

A Dozen Crime Stories...on Kindle

Now available on Kindle...

Paper copy is also available again, but harder to get and more expensive.

More here.

e pluribus haiku 2011

e pluribus haiku

many moments...one journey

now available on Kindle

over 500 haiku based roughly on a 48-state travel experience in the 1970's...the paper copy is also available, but much harder to get (and more expensive).

A Dozen Crime Stories

A Dozen Crime Stories from a Well-known, Big-box Discount Retail Chain was first printed in November 2007, and is being reprinted in 2011.

It consists of the following stories: Pass the Syrup, Have a Good Day, Inventory, Wee Hours, Road Atlas, Jack, Drop Off, Apple of her Mother's Eye, The Juggler, Customer Service, Free Parking, and Lord of the Ringers. All were written in 2007.

It is not politically directed at Wal-Mart, negatively or positively, but rather uses Wal-Mart as a central feature of American small-town life.

Its paper version will be available through Amazon soon.

The e-book online version will follow in spring 2011.