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

Remnants of Flannery

...Only his shoes were on him . . . [his] mouth twisted open to the side as if it were going to displace itself permanently . . . he began...

DOIs and Altmetrics

Screenshot of Altmetric homepage, June 7, 2016. Courtesy of Southern Spaces. Southern Spaces announces the adoption of several features that support our mission of publishing open access and public-facing scholarship....

Dirty Little Story

Essay Map of Fish Trap Hollow and northeastern Mississippi, 2012. ©OpenStreetMap contributors, CC-BY-SA. The visitors are from Virginia, a state that simply sounds clean. There are two young children and a...

Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word

...the other way to west, to wilderness, to where the future waits to open out its shining promise, destiny. Backwater meant new water then, where greatness waited, tilted toward the...

Fort Scott newspapers

...are open questions." Fort Scott Herald. "The Right of Self Protection." April 5, 1879. "Fort Scott has no apology to make for the dreadful deed which was forced on the...

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...

Elegy for the Native Guards

...intone. Only the fort remains, near forty feet high round, unfinished, half-open to the sky, the elements—wind, rain—God's deliberate eye. Map National Park Service Gulf Islands Regional Map Cover Image...