Amazon.com description: Product Description: This Latest book, Gleanings, in nature, is sectional Prose out of the heart of The Blue Ridge Mountains; for anyone interested in Appalachia and its people will enjoy these short stories. . Included here are two Sherewood Anderson competition-winning pieces. Also, are some pieces previously published in Virginia Writing, a magazine of "Promise" writing His pieces have been published in small magazines, and News Papers far and wide but for the first time found here in one complete volume . The volume contains forty-one vignettes which will stir every writer's imagination. In his growing up, the author never misses a que in terms of what is happening around him. Taking this substance of what he sees and hears, he molds it into quaint little stories of the imagination; it is these bits of truth, mixed with the imagination that make for interesting reading. Writing is in its most simplistic form and is an easy read.