Accompanying material may vary.

Includes bibliographical references.

Bailey family resting place / Matt Baggett -- For those who ride the dog / Nikki Barranger -- Falling / Marlin Barton -- Salt / Barry Bradford -- Long time coming / Rick Bragg -- Squirrel's chair / Matthew Brock -- It wasn't all dancing / Mary Ward Brown -- All about the music / Grayson Capps -- Dog house / Jan Chabreck -- Geronimo / Brock Clarke -- Colored glass / Doug Crandell -- Bayou Canot / Joe Formichella -- People on the empty road / Tim Gautreaux -- Charting the territories of the Red / William Gay -- Ghosts in blue and gray / Juliana Gray -- Shrimpers / Juliana Gray -- I'll fly away / Wayne Greenhaw -- Material / Donald Hays -- Waterwalkers / Bret Anthony Johnston -- A season of moles / Jack Kerley -- Birdland / Michael Knight -- Aunt Marie / Mack Lewis -- Yesterday my father was dying / Chip Livingston -- The watch / Jonathan Odell -- Attention Johnny America! Please read! / Jack Pendarvis -- The old pro and the Open / Brewster Milton Robertson -- Hard to remember, hard to forget / Dayne Sherman -- The joy of funerals / Alix Strauss -- Artifacts / Brad Vice -- Dear neighbor / Daniel Wallace -- Mystery Hill -- D.B. Wells -- Gimple and Odum / James Whorton, Jr.

Presents short stories set in the South, from such writers as Daniel Wallace, Rick Bragg, Mary Ward Brown, Juliana Gray, and Alix Strauss.