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Thomas Leverett
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Short Stories

Most recent stories (these may be compiled soon):

The old home place (2007)

Free parking (2007)

Extended family (2006)
Through train (2006)

A night on the town (2006)

Unloading, and nine other stories (April 2005)

I am working toward a self-published collection of short stories; a number of these started out as reading exercises for esl students, and were included to make ten total in this collection; these could best be termed "backfiles" and may end up at the back of the files. Or, on the web, as the lit up ones already are. Some of these are good, though. I ask my friends to read & give comments. Write if you're interested.

included are the following:
Unloading (2005)

Choke and Cell (2005)

Abstract and Concrete (2004)

Three Friends (2000)

Passion and Circumstance (2000)

Schoolhouse

Reflection

Ruffi (2000)

Faith of the Crocodile

Superstition (2000)

Plays:

most recent:

Good Tidings of Yule

Monsters of Kanifloria (2006)

(in progress) Down in Our Hearts

Thou Heardest My Voice, and six other plays (April 2005)

These were done for the benefit of the young friends of Southern Illinois Friends Meeting, at the Interfaith Center in Carbondale, where each was performed. Some have been performed elsewhere. I've compiled the original scripts, including the names, but would like to clean them up and present them to Friends nationwide. Included are the following:

Thou Heardest My Voice (2005), a play about Iraq

Quakers Rock the 17th Century (2004), a play about the early days of Quakerism

Turning Point (2003), a play about the 1970 bombing of Sterling Hall, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
(This play was also performed in DuBois, IL in 2004)
The Life and Times of Lucretia Coffin Mott (2000)
(This play was also performed in St. Louis, MO in 2001)
The Life and Times of John Woolman (1999)

The Story of Benjamin West, Quaker Artist (1998)

White Feather (1997)

Music

Fiddler, banjo picker

Now playing with the Parsley & Sagebrush Band; cd expected soon. Played with bands ranging from the Merry Quakers to the Dogs of Love.

ESL/EFL Articles on the web:

Leverett (2006). Growing up bilingual. Global Study Magazine Online, London. http://www.globalstudymagazine.com/xite/articles/276/.

___ (2006). High heels on a rocky path. Global Study Magazine Online, London. http://www.globalstudymagazine.com/xite/articles/260/.

___ (2005). Virtual learning: A toe in the pool of the new media. Global Study Magazine Online. http://www.globalstudymagazine.com/site/articles/240/.

A question of time (pdf) (2005), Global Study Magazine 3.1, pp. 42-43. London, UK.

The road to fluency (pdf) (2004), Global Study Magazine 2.3, pp. 46-47, London, UK.

A midwestern tale (pdf) (2004), Global Study Magazine 2.2, pp. 16-17. London, UK.

More esl articles and book reviews

Poetry

a href, my poetry site

Writer of link poetry, link haiku, and total link haiku (seventeen syllables, seventeen links. I once claimed to have invented them, since no one that I knew of was doing them actively or at all, before I started, in 2004. Since then a friend, Dave More, has said that he preceded me. Who else? I'd love to know. Come visit!

link poetry contest, not started yet

Still waiting for proper inspiration; a link haiku and link poetry site also wait. I figure it will catch on like wildfire when the time comes; I just want to have some credential, some poetry behind me, when that happens. -TL

Graphics & Web Design

Graphics page

For all intents and purposes, I have stopped creating postcards, and this page is in bad shape (in the process of moving), but I am still gradually uploading old work and using it on the web. The graphics page is the home of most is what is on the web, but there are plenty more...and more in my head, still waiting to be printed!

Web design

I'm an amateur at web design, entirely self-taught, but I've made hundreds of pages, most here at CESL, and consider most of them effective, if not beautiful. Why do I put the state of Illinois by my signature? Because, if I get my web management business off the ground, I'll call it land-a-linkin', and maybe put it here

Visit

my immediate family:

Visit

the family from whence I came:

My father Jim ("he wrote the book!") and my mother, in New Mexico:
My oldest brother Bruce has links to chess pages and the activities of his family.
My sister Margot has links to klezmer music.
My younger brother Bill who with his wife Lisa and baby Bea, has just left Hong Kong for England.

Keep up with family events

at my personal weblog

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Thomas Leverett, CESL, SIUC