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FICTION: Bonjour Y’all

By Cason E. O'Banion We watched Con Air in spurts, passing from the kitchen to the den to the beer fridge in the back-laundry room,...
Food & Drink

FOOD: Mardi Gras!

by Remy Powell Throw me something, Mister!Nothing compares to the excitement of Mardi Gras in New Orleans. The official start of the season is January...
Fiction

Fiction: Burn

by Susan Isaak Lolis The splintered porch steps were mired in mud. He walked outside, around the small shotgun house and looked through the window....
Fiction

Fiction: As I Lie Plotting

by John Dufresne A glossary of terms associated with plot. Found in the late Shuffles Marquis’ book As I Lie: Plotting, which is, alas, long...
Fiction

Fiction: Hoy No, Little Havana, 1992

by Hector Duarte, Jr. Mi hija, Dios la bendiga, siempre me embarca. Always putting me in positions I don’t want to be in. Like right...
Fiction

Fiction: Not Dead Yet in Texas

by Neil Crabtree Rooster had flown into Houston and made his way by rental car down toward Corpus Christi, to a large ranch near South...
Fiction

Fiction: Hard Times for a Haggard Heart

by Gary Carter Ernie lately had taken to studying intently on whether life was just something you endured on a minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour, week-to-week, year-to-year journey...
January-February 2025 Issue

Poetry: Blood of Jesus Binds and Rebukes Your Demons –billboard on I-95 in Clarendon Co., SC, April 2024

by Jo Angela Edwins Beyond this screaming red mouth built squareof wood and paper and paste,there is a green unplanted field,a forest of pine, a...
Book Reviews

Backlist Treasures: Giant, by Edna Ferber

GIANTEdna FerberDoubleday, 1952447 pagesAlthough Michigan-born Edna Ferber isn’t a Southern or Southwestern writer, this work is still a, well, giant, in the lore and...
Book Reviews

Book Review: Giant Love: Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American Film, by Julie Gilbert – January/February...

GIANT LOVE:Edna Ferber, Her Best-Selling Novel of Texas, and the Making of a Classic American FilmJulie GilbertPantheon400 pagesJulie Gilbert’s previous book was an overall...

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