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

Old Elementary

...hissing radiators, oil-polished wood floors, crayonwax, pencil shavings, the chronic dust of lead, chalk, faint fear—and the long hallways not hard for me to imagine empty, dimly lit, where I...

Early Roller Coaster Patents

...within the circle and accessible by stairs. In both cases, the passengers are seated facing sideways. The former patent relies on precisely determined distances and heights such that the car...

Substantiation

...shade the one eye. A cruiser eases through the streets, searchlight in doorways, the driver white, dressed like a cop but for the rope marks at his throat, the bullet...

Letter: Blues

...frayed things and balding summer lawns, Watching TV baseball, shelling prawns. The women that we love! Their slit-eyed ways Of telling us to mind, po-eyed dismays. We need these folks,...

Darkly

...can't understand: already, maybe always being there. Maybe they were born into that vacant sky and they were always there, ready to force a choice so they wouldn't have to...

Love and Death in Mississippi

...identified or how each relationship was defined, loss was always loss, though the grief that followed could take many forms. Loss and grief irrevocably altered the makeup of one's days....