Longshot Island: Fallen Leaves

By Daniel Scott White

This is Vol. 2 of the Longshot Island magazine publication released in 2017. Stories by Joanie Chevalier, Julia Proud, Manuel Royal, Jacqueline Scifres, L.S. Hicks and Barry GJ Quinn.

Who are the fallen leaves? They are angels and they are monsters. They are friends, wives, mothers, and lovers. They are rainbows and falling stars. They are all around us. They are within us.

Some are bitter and cold and they crush in your hands on a cold winter day. Some are warm and colorful and invite you into their homes. But none last forever.

The stories in this issue are about our choices. Who will our friends be? What changes will we go through? What might we destroy, or what might destroy us? All stories. All choices. All leaves.

As a publisher, it occurred to me that writers experiment with storytelling. They try different voices, different styles, different characters, seeing what works best for them on paper. And so it is with life, a constant experiment. We all are the fallen leaves. In the end, you make your own story. Don't let the story make you. Welcome to Fallen Leaves.

Welcome to Fallen Leaves.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Daniel Scott White
• Release date: Dec 7, 2018
• ISBN: 9781970134025

Daniel Scott White

Member of a band of Stray Tablets. Winner of more than fifty film festivals. I was born in the mountains but now live by the sea.

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Longshot Island

Fallen Leaves

EDITED BY

DANIEL SCOTT WHITE

LONGSHOT PRESS

Copyright

Published by Longshot Press

Longshot Island Vol. 2 Copyright © 2017

by Daniel Scott White

Longshot Island is an imprint

of Longshot Press.

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ISBN 978-1-970134-02-5

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Compass

Overture

I Am

by Joanie Chevalier

The Apprentice

by Julia Proud

Brother Stone

by Manuel Royal

Betrayal of the Mind

by Jacqueline Scifres

Tweaks

by L.S. Hicks

Transpecies

by Barry GJ Quinn

Your Turn

Acknowledgments

All stories used by permission of the authors.

Overture

Who are the fallen leaves?

They are angels and they are monsters. They are friends, wives, mothers, and lovers. They are rainbows and falling stars. They are all around us. They are within us.

Some are bitter and cold and they crush in your hands on a cold winter day. Some are warm and colorful and invite you into their homes. But none last forever.

The stories in this issue are about our choices. Who will our friends be? What changes will we go through? What might we destroy, or what might destroy us? All stories. All choices. All leaves.

As a publisher, it occurred to me that writers experiment with storytelling. They try different voices, different styles, different characters, seeing what works best for them on paper. And so it is with life, a constant experiment.

We all are the fallen leaves. In the end, you make your own story. Don't let the story make you.

Welcome to Fallen Leaves.

Daniel Scott White

Editor-in-Chief

I Am

Joanie Chevalier

I am.

I am . . .

invisible. I listen as you argue about who will have to care for me when I’m finally discharged. It may end up that I won’t get out of here anyway. I have an inkling to simply die this afternoon say, before dinner. But my body won’t give up just yet, disobeying. My breath, labored yet steady, continues to expand in my lungs. My blood miraculously flows through old-lady veins. My heart, although weak, is still beating. Whatever happened to the theory of mind over matter? My mind says go but my body stays. I’m weak; I can’t even lift my hand to grab the cup with the bendy straw that is on my bedside table. Before, I poured crystal cold bottled water into my dog’s dish and he happily lapped it up, wagging his tail in appreciation. Here, I