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

Remnants of Flannery

...eighty-nine years old today. O'Connor's legacy is unique among southern writers. Unlike contemporaries Eudora Welty or Carson McCullers, O'Connor primarily wrote short stories that drew upon her bleak, dark, and...

Flit Lit in the Sweet Sunny South

...alone I thought it might be the proverbial train wreck of colliding stereotypes, but like most passersby of an accident I had to stare at least a little. A writer...

At Sun Ra's Grave

...billow and shifts and shirts drift like porters through the depot's blank. Scatters spread over Rickwood, over Dynamite Hill and Tuxedo Junction's boarded jukes, descending like night herons into Elmwood...

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...

Off-Season

FOR FIELDWORKERS AND FARMERS LIKE ME Early, on grayest morning, when we nettled deep in between rows, tobacco and sweet potato, both two seasons away from planting, you reasoned I...

August, 1959: Morning Service

Beside the open window on the cemetery side, I drowsed as Preacher Lusk gripped his Bible like a bat snagged from the pentecostal gloom. In that room where heat clabbered...