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
🌿LEAVES home page 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 Erica Drayton’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....
Pawed-Cast 1: Up All Night With Raymond
This is Raymond’s first ever Pawed-Cast, which was posted in September 2023. He has held several others since then, but you’ll like this one, even if you have read it before. He is a remarkable cat with a lot on his mind.
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.
Five more stories were featured in “Top in Fiction” Weekly Magazine
Dear Aunt Millie... co-written with Bryan Pirolli
