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

The Change

...earth when quenched with rains called forth by our song and drumming. Leaves, which weeks later,   would be taken down and the strings pulled like string on top of...

Off-Season

...a back hoe, first time I got to frame, and when I swung the hammer full leverage, three pounds drove in sixteenpennys straight. In six weeks, I made foreman. Just...

Antietam

...ground, gravel lodging in the skin of my palms. I cried the whole way home. After a week, the rocks were gone. My mother said our bodies can digest anything,...

Atchison newspaper

...the action as disgraceful, and within a few weeks the entire affair will be forgotten. This is a way Americans have. The pulpits will ring with denunciation, and the people...

Stones and Shadows

...ask why. "The mausoleum keeps expanding," he says, without irony. "Have you ever been to a filing? Your mother and I went to our first last week." I give him...

The Bulletin—July 2, 2013

...weeks and forced all abortion sites to register as ambulatory surgical centers. Davis previously filibustered a budget that saw huge cuts to education for eight hours. Although that budget ultimately...

The Bulletin—September 21, 2012

...week the Georgia Secretary of State announced that the Georgia State Archives would close effective November 1, 2012. A great deal of protest followed this announcement, including letters from the American...