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

Sprinkle Creek, North Carolina

...now. I'd hate to leave them. I feel a responsibility there for my parents, and for his parents. That old cemetery, that's another reason not to. My niece is buried...

CDC in the Pandemic's Wake

Commentary Multiple COVID-19 waves have left in their wake compelling evidence of long overlooked gaps in pandemic readiness and responsiveness. The primary lesson for the US public health and healthcare...

The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi

...was able to get extraordinary shots: the fifteen-year-old walks down the street and a fifty-year-old man almost assaults him. And there's great patience and quiet, controlled pacing that seems true...

Returning Home, Saxon Mills

...carrying her clothes, my unborn sister, nothing left of marriage but the cheap ring. There was her father, Lonnie, the house painter, in Lantana. Lonnie, always drinking, laughing at poverty....