Creek Songs is a work of fiction that, with comic irony, tells the tale of Tone Damone, wild frontman for a homegrown rock’n’roll band, on a too-late quest to save 1950s rock’n’roll from the British Invasion. In the aftermath, and in a bold and youthful search for identity, love and fame, the young rebels in his group are like Minute Men, formed from locals, all living obscurely near Lost Creek in a small factory town, crazy to guard their own kind of music, and live in a world of their own making: one dream, one rebel flag, one band. In a clash of generations, will this group of teens (calling themselves The Lost Creek Boys , and later The Skinny-Dippers when two girls join the band), ever wake up one day to find that they are famous ? Or, when the moon is full, will they wake up unknown and alone, and then just fade away? During the summer of 1966, in their youthful rebellion, singing their “creek songs,” they daringly resist the trends and shocks of the times and insanely fight for their own sense of how things should be in the matters of music and love. In his own Tone-Beat style, slangy and ironic, the storyteller chronicles the fast-paced goings-on down by Lost Creek in the hapless lives of bandmates, girlfriends and enemies alike. He tells how living along the creek-run, making music and making love are filled with what he calls “clashes, bashes, crashes, and smashes.” Feeling talented and unwanted, he has had to grow up fast in a new age of free love and social experimentation. Still, this musician and rebel, like his bandmates and lovers, is possessed with a fierce and edgy longing to live a beautiful life. Anthony Labriola’s work has appeared in The Canadian Forum, PRISM international, Vallum : Contemporary Poetry, Stone Voices, Still Point Arts Quarterly, Passion: Poetry, The Colours of Saying, Bells & Pomegranates, and Strange Fictions (Vagabondage Press). His poetry collections include The Rigged Universe, Birds and Arrows , Sun Dogs (Shanti Arts Publishing), Invisible Mending , The Blessing of the Bikes & Other Life Cycles, Armour & Lace: From the Dragon Slayer’s Notebook, The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters , and All Things Counter, Original, Spare, Strange: Prose Poems (Anaphora Literary Press). His published prose works include Devouring the Artist , The Pros & Cons of Dragon-Slaying , Poor Love & Other Stories , The Lonely Barber, The Dandelion Clock, An Englishman in Italian, Dragonfly’s Urban Crusade, Jealousy: Two Tales, The Lover and Interpreter of Human Oddities , and Love’s Cure (Anaphora Literary Press). The Japanese Waltzing Mouse & Other Tales (Cranberry Tree Press) appeared in August 2016 . He lives with his family in Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada.