The pool isn’t empty there just isn’t any water in it. There are pine needles and leaves in the deep end. Someone has thrown the starting blocks in and the picnic tables but strangely the diving board still stands. The black lines my children followed at swim meets and the black crosses on the walls […]
Bil Lepp
Bil Lepp is usually a professional storyteller and humorist. His works have been published in, or recently accepted by Rattle, Appalachian Journal, Revolution John, Paragraph Planet, and Close to the Bone. His book, The King of Little Things, won the PEN Steven Kroll Award for Picture Book Writing. He has been a Featured Teller at the National Storytelling Festival since 2002. Lepp has published several books, and twenty-five, or so, audio recordings. He lives in West Virginia.