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Leonard is the author of the novels Sharper Mind Darker Dreams, Magnolias in Paradise and Meditation On Space-Time. His short fiction have appeared in the Duende Literary Journal, Quarterly Literary Review Singapore, and Pilcrow & Dagger. His story Black-Naped Oriole in Hokkaido Snow was a podcast winner at Pilcrow & Dagger. He received Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future competition for the story Don't Be Afraid of the Black Rain. He enrolled in the Jennie McKean Moore Fiction Workshop at George Washington University with Tim Johnston and Brando Skyhorse .

He received the B.S. in Physics and B.S. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and
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Leonard Seet I would take a break, work on puzzles or other games. Maybe go to the gym or even hike on a nearby trail. I wouldn't sit in front of the desk and forc…moreI would take a break, work on puzzles or other games. Maybe go to the gym or even hike on a nearby trail. I wouldn't sit in front of the desk and force some idea out of my head.(less)
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Magnolias in Paradise

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Meditation on Space-Time

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The Spiritual Life

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Yellow Roses for Samantha at Duende Literary Journal

For those of you who are interested, the short story Yellow Roses for Samantha is available at Duede Literary Journal. Enjoy.

Three women struggle with their lives after losing their children through a school shooting. Missy checks into a sanitarium, Jessica finds comfort in the arms of Missy's husband, and Linda takes a bottle of sleeping pills. "Yellow Roses for Samantha" is a tale of the search Read more of this blog post »
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“I am an imperfect man living in an imperfect world, trying to weave through the chaotic interactions of semi-causal events with linear logic, contradictory emotions, dialectic wisdom, and mortal integrity.”
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“I would enter the desert alone, to leave in the sand endless footprints only to be obliterated by the wind, to walk the same path each day expecting the same path tomorrow, and perhaps to cease wondering at the bloom and wither of lilies only to linger for death. But no, even in the desert, I would seek a new sanctuary, to contemplate a grain of sand in a sea of dryness...”
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“More than once, the broken moon would cast through the window a silver light and remind me of independent events yielding to their own momentum and interacting under natural laws while my mind would impose happiness, grief, beauty, ruin, justice and chaos.”
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“More than once, the broken moon would cast through the window a silver light and remind me of independent events yielding to their own momentum and interacting under natural laws while my mind would impose happiness, grief, beauty, ruin, justice and chaos.”
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Leonard You're welcome.


message 6: by Karl

Karl Thanks for the add, Leonard.


Leonard Jeffrey,

You're welcome.


Jeffrey Leonard,

Thank you for sharing the first chapter of the novel.


message 3: by Nawal

Nawal Hi Leonard, thanks for the add, my honor to be in yr friend list :) so apparently we have almost similar taste in books! what an excitement :)

I wish you great success with your writing career, and hope reading u soon.


Leonard Steven, I definitely recommend War and Peace even though I believe the novel can be shortened. Pierre and Andrei in the novel are interesting characters.


Steven R. Kraaijeveld Hi Leonard, thanks for the add. You have an interesting background. :) And hey, The Brothers Karamozov, 1984, The Stranger, and A Hundred Years of Solitude are amazing! I have not read War and Peace yet but it's on my shelf ready to be devoured.


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