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Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe: Anthology of Southern Writers

Part of the Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe series

This collection of thirty Southern writers gathers some of the finest authors in the country - with stories, essays, and a poem. Demonstrating a range of styles, topics, and themes these stories display each writer's craftsmanship and talent and together form a testament to the grand literary tradition of the South.

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Final season by Marlin Barton

The blues is dying in the place it was born by Rick Bragg

Bitsy by Jill Conner Browne

S. Trident by C. Terry Cline

My heart's content by Pat Conroy

The octopus alibi by Tom Corcoran

I would like to go back as I am, now, to you as you were, then by Beth Ann Fennelly

The girl from Soldier Creek by Patricia Foster

Christmas 1893 by Tom Franklin

Come home, come home, it's suppertime by William Gay

Everything must go by Jim Gilbert

Going back to the bridge in Berlin by W. E. B. Griffin

Just a little closer to the Lord by Winston Groom

Love like a bullet by Melinda Haynes

Left behind by Frank Turner Hollon

The last days by Silas House

The fall of the Nixon administration by Suzanne Hudson

A modern tragedy by Douglas Kelley

Payback by Tom Kelly

Killing Stonewall Jackson by Michael Knight

White sugar and red clay by Bev Marshall

Blackbird by Barbara Robinette Moss

And when I should feel something by Jennifer Paddock

How this song ends by Judith Richards

From Tucson to Tucumcari, from Hatchabee to Tonopah by Richard Shackelford

Vietnam by George Singleton

Jesus, beans, and butter rum Lifesavers by Monroe Thompson

Arnold's number by Sidney Thompson

The dead girl by Brad Watson

The right kind of person by Steve Yarbrough

Setting
2000samerican south
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 351 pages
Form
short stories

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