Short stories tagged with Southern

Listing 9 stories.

While assisting her neglectful family's con-work at a carnival, a thirteen-year-old girl is enticed by a mysterious high-school dropout who makes her feel seen.

Going under the name "Black Elvis," a performer meets a another vocalist and faces an identity crisis.

Going under the name "Black Elvis," a performer meets a another vocalist and faces an identity crisis.

Hog Hammond, head football coach at Mississippi Southern University, mulls feverishly over his life’s work and family history as he becomes more and more convinced his heart is giving out. Legacy football player and Mississippi Southern University head coach Hog Hammond starts feeling all-consuming pain swell in and out of body, his heart swilling and thrashing in waves of blood. Convinced he’s going to die; he speaks freely to his wife and family, asking the questions he’s always had for them.

Deaf protagonist Janie and her controlling mother are visited by a travelling documentarian working for the WPA, who brings Janie along on his work days against her mother’s will and confides in Janie about his own mother who was deaf and killed by his abusive father. The morning after Mr. Clark’s departure, Janie finds her mother dead.

When a young boy in 1930s Kentucky turns seven years old, he suddenly finds the hefty weight of his age settling on his unassuming shoulders.

An alcoholic and abusive father with three children decides he wants to be a better man, and to do that he will abide by Matthew 5—switching his own feet, eyes, tongue, ears, and hands for those of someone better than he. His daughter willingly amputates and sews him together with the assistance of a body part delivery boy called The Collector, but later discovers to her horror that the new parts belonged to her missing mother.

When a steely and fiercely independent woman opens her heart to a bizarre visitor, it uplifts their entire Southern town, until their relationship falls prey to another man’s revenge.

When a pair of hitmen enter a saloon looking for their latest victim, the saloon’s staff and customers must find a way to prevent a murder from taking place.