abstract:"Red Leaves" is a short story by American author William Faulkner. First published in the Saturday Evening Post on October 25, 1930, it was one of Faulkner's first stories to appear in a national magazine.
If preventing fungal attack were the explanation, he argues, young redleaves ought to be more common in a forest's wet understorey, where fungi thrive, than in the drier canopy.