by Do South | May 1, 2022 | Southern Lit
“Is it weird that I left a card stuck in the door for the guy who lives in the apartment downstairs?” I asked, picking at a corner of the nail polish on my thumb. I was sitting on a stool at the local coffee bar, nursing my third cup of coffee in as many hours. My...
by Do South | Jul 1, 2021 | Food, Food + Drink, People, Travel
[title subtitle=” WORDS Dwain Hebda IMAGES courtesy featured restaurants”][/title] A few years ago, a group of us spent some time in Fort Smith attending the Old Fort Days Rodeo. After a particularly entertaining evening on the grounds, we were looking...
by Do South | Oct 1, 2020 | Southern Lit
[title subtitle=”WORDS Liesel Schmidt IMAGES Africa Studio/Shutterstock”][/title] This is the first installment of a two-part fictional story. Part two will be featured in our November issue. She’d been fine until she saw it. She’d been strong,...
by Do South | Jun 1, 2019 | Southern Lit
[title subtitle=”words Sarah Phillips”][/title] One could say it was the friendly people, the wide aisles, or even the soft lighting that kept her coming back to Belle Star Vintage Market time and time again. Or that it was the way that each and every...
by Do South | Apr 1, 2015 | Southern Lit
[title subtitle=”words: Marla Cantrell”][/title] In the summer of my twenty-second year, just as the corn and tomatoes were coming to life, a man found his way to me. He was driving a gold and brown Ford LTD. He was wearing polyester pants the color of...