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    Listen to the Leaves
    Listen to the Leaves
    Listen to the Leaves
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    Listen to the Leaves

    By JamieDeBree

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    Celebrate fall with this multiracial collection of stories that explore what it means to listen to the leaves. Romance, suspense, poetic prose, vampires and fantasy - there's something for everyone in this literary buffet from authors in five countries. What will the leaves tell you?

    Landscapes by Lisamarie Lamb
    Ruby by Yagni Payal
    The Treehouse by Cathy Graham
    Autumn by Ajo Despuig
    Listen to the Leaves by Ann Partridge
    No Autumn Changes by Teodora Savu
    Lullaby by Jamie DeBree
    Old Joe by Mary Fleming
    Message of the Ne'er Pan by Carol R. Ward

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJamieDeBree
    Release dateSep 27, 2012
    ISBN9781937477530
    Listen to the Leaves
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    JamieDeBree

    Brazen Snake Books is an independent publishing company specializing in romantic suspense, thriller/suspense and erotica. Established in 2010. Submissions by invitation only.

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      Listen to the Leaves - JamieDeBree

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      Listen to the Leaves

      Stories by

      Lisamarie Lamb, Yagni Payal, Cathy Graham, Ajo Despuig, Ann Partridge, Teodora Savu,

      Jamie DeBree, Mary Fleming and Carol R. Ward

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      Listen to the Leaves

      Copyright 2012 Brazen Snake Books

      ISBN: 978-1-937477-53-0

      Compiled by Jamie DeBree

      Edited by Carol R. Ward & Jamie DeBree

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form, or by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise) without the prior written permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book.

      This book is a work of fiction and any resemblance to persons, living or dead, or places, events or locales is purely coincidental. The characters are productions of the author's imagination, and used fictitiously.

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      Table of Contents

      Landscapes by Lisamarie Lamb

      Ruby by Yagni Payal

      The Treehouse by Cathy Graham

      Autumn by Ajo Despuig

      Listen to the Leaves by Ann Partridge

      No Autumn Changes by Teodora Savu

      Lullaby by Jamie DeBree

      Old Joe by Mary Fleming

      Message of the Ne'er Pan by Carol R. Ward

      Landscapes

      by Lisamarie Lamb

      Aiden shuffled through the leaves lying on the ground. He loved nothing more than to crunch the crispness under his feet, the air frigid and visible around his head.

      He loved these woods too. They were Aiden’s playground – he always preferred natural climbing frames, real adventure, to the colourful monstrosities that the council liked to install in the middle of housing estates, or on the edges of perfectly fine parks. The older boys liked to hang out in the one near his house where they smoked and drank and talked about things that scared little Aiden.

      Things like girls.

      So he went to the woods.

      Aiden waded through mud in the winter, picked at the green shoots in the spring, hid from the sun in the summer, and kicked through the leaves in the autumn. On his own. Always alone. Which is exactly what he wanted.

      Until the day he found her, the lady. He named her Julie. When Aiden first saw her, she was lying on a log in the middle of a deep pile of leaves, her eyes closed, her coat discarded and left to hang over a grey tree branch, her scarf wrapped tightly around her neck and her hand dangling down, barely touching the ground.

      He stopped. He made no sound, not wanting to wake the woman. Girl. She was young, though older than him. A teenager maybe, but not much more.

      Aiden watched for a while as the woods became darker and the birds became quieter. The girl didn’t move. She looked so peaceful that Aiden didn’t want to disturb her, so he crept away and when he was far enough down the path he broke into an excited run, desperate to tell someone about the girl.

      Because she had been beautiful.

      Before seeing her, Aiden had never been interested in girls. They held no fascination for him like they did his schoolmates. Girls frightened him a little and they worried him a lot, and that was all he needed to know.

      Julie was different.

      Aiden couldn’t quite put his new feelings into words. He couldn’t quite understand what was happening, but he knew he had to see his girl again. He gave her a name so that he could talk to her at night, and he gave her a life so that he could practice what he would say to her next time they met.

      He stayed away from the woods – from anywhere – for a week, just rehearsing what he would say, and imagining how she would respond. In his mind, she always responded well. She agreed to be his friend, to play with him in the woods, to hang around with him at home. Maybe one day she would even take him to the cinema, or buy him a burger.

      Aiden smoothed back his hair and dressed in stiffly ironed jeans and a striped shirt that was supposed to be saved for best, for church, for visiting. It was not meant for wandering in the woods, and certainly not for clambering over fallen trees and splashing through leaves. Aiden knew he would catch hot hell from his parents when he returned home that night, but for now he was happy. Off he went into the woods to find Julie. And he did find her. Exactly where he had left her the week before.

      Julie hadn’t moved. Her clothes fit looser now, her coat was covered in a layer of light moss, her fingers, dipping down low into the leaves, were blue tinged and pale. As Aiden drew closer – closer than he had before – he saw that they had been nibbled at by some small creature with big teeth.

      It didn’t occur to him that this might be a bad thing. He understood that she was different. Strange. He felt then that she was a lot like him, so he didn’t mind. The smell was a little off-putting, but she did live in the woods. What did he expect, really? And clearly she was

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