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

Darkly

...from there to the shore and then as far upriver as you can see. Here it's only open water, empty sky, two ends of road no one uses, landfill on...

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...

Excerpt from Saints at the River

...sit on the blanket. It is warmer there, the sun full upon them. She thinks about going back but is almost halfway now. She takes a step, and the water...

Substantiation

...Farm where guards rifle from the woods. A change at the Eavesdrop Inn then he's bent picking cotton in a field. Come sundown, he hobos Sumner way and squats at...

Keep Your Eye upon the Scale

...Hall in Onllywyn, South Wales, 1976. Video still from Keep Your Eye upon the Scale, by Tom Hansell, Patricia Beaver, and Angela Wiley. Keep Your Eye upon the Scale opens...