Juan Lepuen: 20 books

A high-school basketball game threatens to trigger a race riot in Caddo Parish, Louisiana.Genre: short storyWords: 2,525

"Was briefly tempted to write today but then remembered that it was Sunday and that the last thing I wanted to be was a Sunday scribbler." Genre: diary Length: 3,700 words

The mid-1980s in a moribund Caddo Parish, Louisiana. Two emissaries from a booming Japan meet unexpectedly vicious resistance from a class of ne'er-do-well high-school students.Genre: short storyWords: 2,335

When the standoffish head of his department summons him to her office, "Professor" John Newhouse is sure it is to let him know that he has been given the annual award for the teacher who most clearly embodies the ideals of the department's illustrious founder, Dr. Edward Nortick. Genre: short story Words: 1,731

"There was the raven, dusty and moth-eaten now, that was supposed to have inspired one of the writer’s most celebrated works. Busloads of tourists and prospective students came throughout the year to look through the glass into that room and at its lifeless objects. No matter that the writer studied...

Barely four years removed from graduation, three friends from high school, now more interested in drink than in each other, recall the evening one of their number emerged suddenly sobered from the stranger's apartment he had disappeared into shortly before.Genre: short storyWords: 1,825