BOOKS
Find ESH Leighton's novels and anthologies below
Journey Man
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When his desperation for sleep persuades Ryan Savage, an insomniac artist, to use a potent cocktail of sleeping pills, drugs and other unknowns, he falls down a technicolor rabbit hole and lands in a parallel New York City full of grim reapers, muses, and oracles. Determined to stay in the world of colors so long lost to him, he quickly takes up an apprenticeship beneath Bishop, the leading grim reaper of the realm.
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Secured in his new world and vocation, Savage is soon helping Bishop track a serial killer across the desert with each killing an eerie echo of the violent art from Savage's own mind. In order to catch the killer before he strikes again, Savage must revisit his past; his beliefs, his memories, and the pieces that have been left to exile.
ESH Leighton’s debut collection: Backwards Births isn’t just an assemblage of poetry. It’s a tribute to the arc of life, from death ever backward toward womb.
Separated into four distinct parts, Backwards Births examines the discovery of beauty in death, grief, and aging. What it is to be a woman, married but childless. The evolution from young adult to actualized self. And the dichotomy of the old soul—to be at once young and old in a world where there is space for neither.
Simultaneously longing for connection and thirsty for social distance, Backwards Births illustrates the ambivert’s plight with stunning imagery and fierce intent.