Running for Your Life: Loose Leafs

Surprise! Running figures in my fiction and nonfiction. (And in a new photo, see below right Steamtown Marathon pic ... )

It’s fall, and in my neck of the woods, the leaves are still at it. Falling, that is. It may not motivate every runner, but it does one Ben Starwick, a character in a current novel, a work-in-progress, of mine. Here, he is in conversation with his friend, Luke DeSoto:

“Autumn in the park,” Ben says, “the leaves fall pretty much everywhere. On paths, the roadway, ponds,