Michael Ollie Clayton: 11 books

Speeches and columns Michael Clayton wrote for the mayor of New Orleans, scripts for television shows, interviews and profiles of celebrities, book and film reviews, news stories written for newspapers in Las Vegas, New Orleans and Los Angeles, as well as material Clayton wrote for stand-up comedians, and social commentary Clayton published throughout the United States...THE WORKS!!!

She was establishment, he was an iconoclast. She was commissioned, he was enlisted. Yvonne followed the rules, Michael broke them. The Captain & The Rebel is a true story about NASA astronaut Yvonne Cagle's and writer Michael Clayton's rocky, stormy engagement, marriage, and divorce. A male "The Color Purple" in Clayton's words.

Select poems from the author's body of collected work. Clayton offers insightful observations about rusticity and nature in general.

New-age poetry that covers everything from urban living, politics, nature, love, existence, and religion right on down to social issues.

I love the city, I hate the city. I miss the city, I don't miss the city. I crave the city, I am depraved because of the city.

I got locked in jail for a misdemeanor for 200 days. It was my first time sentenced, and as I told the warden on the way out, "The next time y'all get me in here, I'll be in Hoveraround." These words are my observation of the jailhouse game, as it were...

Childhood friends Khalil, a successful rapper, and Justin (J.D.), recently released from prison, are confronted by circumstances that test the mettle of the sworn-in-blood lifelong bond they declared to each other. The unshakable camaraderie they shared as youngsters growing up in New Orleans is tried...

One night, the lights went out, the water quit running, and a few days later the grocery store shelves were bare. Law & order, civility completely broke down. Seven years later, nothing has changed, except your neighbors will catch you, kill you, and cook you for dinner.

A Time Of No Fences is the story of a mother fiercely determined to save her son from crack addiction by any means necessary. While at the same time, the next door neighbors are literally blowing the roof off the sucker with their all-night crack parties. The chapters go back and forth, moral and...

The saga continues! Madison Blaine, Santoya, George Kor, Stryke Washington, and Lucas Gross are reminded to never take anything for granted. Things change all the time...for the better, for the worst. Up is down, down is sideways, and sideways can't be found...

High-energy short stories that push the envelope to the edge, if not over the edge...