Imagine if you were given the opportunity to "leap" back in time to change your life. Lyle Proctor is given that opportunity, twice. He goes to sleep on February 28, 2008, not expecting to wake up the following day. He doesn't. He wakes up on Leap Day, 2004. He's not sure how it happened or how long he'll be there, so he writes a letter to his past self. His hope is that his past self will make the changes necessary to improve his life. He goes to sleep that night, and wakes up on Leap Day, 2008. He spends the day remembering the new memories that his past self made vs. the original memories. He realizes that things aren't better than they had been. He goes to sleep that night, and wakes up on Leap Day, 2000. He writes himself another letter, but it is unnecessary, as he actually relives the next eight years of his life. Find out how much better, or worse, his life is once Leap Day, 2008, comes around again.
“Lyle was lying on his back with his eyes closed and his hands held together in prayer at his chest. Tears welled up in his eyes and ran down the sides of his face. He wiped them away and turned over on his stomach with his face on the right side of the pillow and his forehead touching the wall. At 11:45, Lyle’s breathing slowed, and he fell asleep. Although he did not expect to wake up again, he did. When he did awaken, not only was it no longer February 28, but it was no longer 2008…”
About Larry W. Payton Jr.
Larry W. Payton Jr. lives in a very small town in central Illinois, and has done so for twenty-four of his thirty-three years. Leap Day is his first novel, and is a fictionalized autobiography of the last eight years of his life. It is his hope that many novels will follow.
Imagine if you were given the opportunity to "leap" back in time to change your life. Lyle Proctor is given that opportunity, twice. He goes to sleep on February 28, 2008, not expecting to wake up the following day. He doesn't. He wakes up on Leap Day, 2004. He's not sure how it happened or how long he'll be there, so he writes a letter to his past self. His hope is that his past self will make the changes necessary to improve his life. He goes to sleep that night, and wakes up on Leap Day, 2008. He spends the day remembering the new memories that his past self made vs. the original memories. He realizes that things aren't better than they had been. He goes to sleep that night, and wakes up on Leap Day, 2000. He writes himself another letter, but it is unnecessary, as he actually relives the next eight years of his life. Find out how much better, or worse, his life is once Leap Day, 2008, comes around again.
Larry W. Payton Jr. lives in a very small town in central Illinois, and has done so for twenty-four of his thirty-three years. Leap Day is his first novel, and is a fictionalized autobiography of the last eight years of his life. It is his hope that many novels will follow.