Welcome!
LEAVES 🌿 are perfect every morning with your coffee and toast, and much better for your mental health than the daily newspaper or social media. They offer a little respite from this mad world for a few minutes each day.
LEAVES 🌿 is not a blog. It will not help you get fit, or save the planet, or organize your closet, or make a great lasagna. You will find no gossip or politics here, but you will find:
worthy character-driven micro-fiction
evocative tales from a woman who’s traveled solo for 40 years
the Katy Stories from a family unlike your own
the Haylene and Marla stories -two loose women on an eternal road trip in a ‘79 Camaro
Pawed Casts and stories by Raymond the cat who has a large fan base who call themselves the Raybots
the full-length tale of Bartle Clunes, life in the California foothills, 1949
We have a lot in common, you and I — we are, after all, probably of the same species. Admittedly, I am slightly askew from having lived in Santa Cruz my whole life, but, hey! Please stop in daily for a quick read.
🌿LEAVES are free for everyone.
🌿LEAVES home page with all sections is found HERE
🌿A click on the little green leaf in the top left corner of any page takes you to the home page
🌿LEAVES has won several of Substack’s “Top In Fiction” Awards for Microfiction. Here are a few examples:
The New Neighbor
I’m on the back porch looking up at him, admiring the contours of his ass in those tight jeans....
Up All Night With Raymond
by Sharron Bassano
Comes the Dark
This old house has fallen into utter ruin — tattered wallpaper, shredded draperies, the dusty remains of a carpet worn thin by my anxious pacing.
Three more winners: Top in Fiction Featured Micro-Fiction
