Short stories: Southern humor 6 Articles

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by Carol Rzadkiewicz

Bringing in the Sheaves Lydia remembered being only six years old when she first began wondering if her mama was crazy, although it was the summer of her thirteenth birthday before she was able to lay that question t...read more

by Southwind

THE DAY THE FLYING SAUCER LANDED IN JUDEA, ALABAMA Six miles outside the small town of Judea, Alabama on Wild Hawg Mountain, a half-mile past the old Macedonia Baptist Church was the farm home of Justin Arnold Wils...read more

by Willie Higgins

Dumb Hillbillies Sara Jane. You get up here right this minute, and help get them closes hung out ta dry. And how many times I got ta tell you ta stay away from there a gawking at Holbart Finch. Just cause he come he...read more

by Gina Barr

"Gina?" "Yes...Guido, is that you?" I had jumped from my closet to answer the phone. I'd been going through photographs and swooning gladly over pictures of my children. "Yeah...hey, I think I'm goin' nuts." ...read more

by Carolyn Lanier

It was a hot summer that year 1989 in Arkansas. My brother Billy Bob and I was sitting on the porch swing that July Afternoon when we decided to go down to the creek for a swim. Well that creek ran right behind Tammy Sue'...read more

by Professor Charles Xavier

The Winterbourne Plantation Ellie Winterbourne sighed as she dug herself deeply into her carriage seat, she thought this might help with the smell coming from the hoarse in front. She managed to go through most of her lif...read more