by Do South | Oct 1, 2017 | Books
[title subtitle=”review: Marla Cantrell”][/title] By Anita Paddock | Pen-L Publishing | 195 pages | $15 Most of us go to our jobs every day without a passing thought that evil might find us there. But in September 1980, two criminals walked into Staton’s...
by Do South | Oct 1, 2017 | People
[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell images:Belinda Sims”][/title] The last two weeks of April 2017 were marked by mild temperatures, a few foggy mornings, and eight days of thunderstorms. None of that was remarkable for spring in Arkansas, and neither...
by Do South | Sep 30, 2017 | Southern Verse
[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell”][/title] Landry Hale came from Lubbock, from High Plains country, where the sunsets looked so perfect they could be mirages. “The dust in the air does it,” he said, on that first night I met him at the county fair....
by Do South | Sep 1, 2017 | Southern Lit, Southern Verse
[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell”][/title] Glen Campbell showed up at the foot of my bed three nights after he died. He said, real gentle like, “Mary Alice, you’re from Phoenix, aren’t you?” I sat up, a shockwave running through me. I blinked twice,...
by Do South | Sep 1, 2017 | Books
[title subtitle=”review: Marla Cantrell”][/title] By Nina Riggs | Simon & Schuster | 310 pages | $25 As the daughter of a woman who died of breast cancer when she was fifty-two years old, just looking at the cover of The Bright Hour set my heart...
