by Do South | Mar 1, 2014 | Southern Verse
[title subtitle=”fiction Marla Cantrell”][/title] This story was inspired by this quote, “We’re all just walking each other home,” which was written by Ram Dass Wanda laid him to rest on a Saturday, the week of Easter, about the same time as...
by Do South | Jan 31, 2014 | Southern Verse
[title subtitle=”fiction: Marla Cantrell”][/title] My mama has been hit by lightning, so my tore-up leg holds little interest for her. “Go wash,” is all she says when I stumble through the front door, fresh from work, a bandana wrapped around the gash,...
by Do South | Nov 30, 2013 | Southern Verse
[title subtitle=”fiction: Marla Cantrell”][/title] As soon as Cletus Burkhart crossed the Arkansas border he was no longer Cletus. Everyone he knew here called him Hambone, a nickname his older brother had given him one Sunday when he was four, while he...
by Do South | Oct 31, 2013 | Southern Verse
[title subtitle=”fiction: Marla Cantrell”][/title] Uncle Bud came running down the long path that connected our house to Grandma’s. He stopped at the gate, unhitched the rope that held it shut and didn’t stop to latch it back. If the cows got out, there’d...
