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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

In Memory Hill Cemetery

...anything. Her grave, pale granite, reflects in the viewfinder — a constellation of dark pennies beside a nebula of grass. Why offer an assemblage of withered weeds and pennies dark...

Runaway

Barefoot in the actual dark, I packed a paper bag And found the way out of my lover's house. I had only the glass coffee table as obstacle; I slipped...

Excerpt from Saints at the River

...darkness and as she rises her head scrapes against a rock ceiling and all is black and silent and she tells herself don't breathe but the need grows inside her...

Substantiation

...knows he's coming since he whistles like a train on the way out of town. * They say it was darker than a thousand midnights in the cabin, that they...

Putting the Hospital into Southern Hospitality

...entitled Them Dark Days: Slavery in the American Rice Swamps (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996). McCandless has cleared that same bar with apparent ease. We can only hope that...

Tuscaloosa: Riversong

...This is not Jordan, only the river DeSoto tossed three hundred souls into, watched the water grow tall as they squirmed like dancing stones, watched the water dark and struggling...

Three AM and the Stars Were Out

...don't, don't because they know the younger vets shuck off these dark expeditions to me, thinking it's my job, not theirs, because I've done it so long I'm used to...

Editorial Style Guide

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