by Do South | Oct 1, 2018 | Southern Lit, Southern Verse
[title subtitle=”fiction: Marla Cantrell”][/title] Twenty-three-year-old Bessie Turner grabs her keys from a hook by her front door and holds them to her chest for a few seconds. The light here is dim, but outside, this October day is all red leaves and...
by Do South | Sep 1, 2018 | Books
[title subtitle=”review: Marla Cantrell”][/title] By Anne Tyler Alfred A. Knopf | 292 pages | $27 Anne Tyler, a Pulitzer Prize-winning literary icon, takes the ordinary lives of ordinary people and lifts them so high they become ethereal. This is...
by Do South | Sep 1, 2018 | Southern Verse
[title subtitle=”fiction: Marla Cantrell”][/title] We had been to a specialist that morning with our daughter, Penny, who had started sleepwalking at six years old. Winn and I were divorced more than a year by then. Our marriage had been a disaster,...
by Do South | Jul 1, 2018 | Southern Lit, Southern Verse
[title subtitle=”Fiction: Marla Cantrell”][/title] I’m driving past Gregory Cemetery on a day in July when the heat has already topped one hundred degrees. That doesn’t stop the ladies who come every morning bearing tin-foil-covered jars that hold roses...
by Do South | Jun 1, 2018 | Southern Lit, Southern Verse
[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell”][/title] Levi says, “You can’t make this stuff up!” He’s talking about the arrest of several of our elected officials who’ve been accused of bribing folks for votes. Paying folks through favors or what-not to make...
