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

Theories of Time and Space

...of shrimp boats are loose stitches in a sky threatening rain. Cross over the man-made beach, 26 miles of sand dumped on the mangrove swamp—buried terrain of the past. Bring...

Dirty Little Story

...A Plan B is a wonderful thing at such a moment. We all pile back into the car. The weather is like October. The lake water is warm. The sky...

Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word

...sky is, how distant the family, but of winged seeds blown from a milkweed field in the opalescent smokes of early winter ascending toward heaven's blue, each self orchestrated in...

Theories of Time and Space

...loose stitches in a sky threatening rain. Cross over the man-made beach, 26 miles of sand dumped on the mangrove swamp — buried terrain of the past. Bring only what...

A Horrible, Beautiful Beast

...black woman slices her own wrists, blood spraying as she kicks her heels in glee, a slave man floats in the sky lifted by his own balloon-like genitals, a master...