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March 25, 2017 | Single Authors Short Stories

By R. T. Smith

within the top culture of southern storytelling, Uke Rivers grants beneficial properties raconteurs as beguiling because the stories they inform. those lyrical, darkly funny monologues painting a number denizens of the yank South desperately attempting to come to grips with their inherited pasts. A accomplice reenactor gets a message from the past to put to leisure the is still of Stonewall Jackson's horse. A docent at Washington and Lee University's Lee Chapel deals prim guideline at the evidence and legends approximately "the normal" with either reverence and irony. The younger son of a lewd, alcoholic, self-dubbed evangelist acquires the wits—and the will—for survival via keeping the family's sunflower vegetation. A midget ukulele virtuoso is so shocked via his personal eruption into violence that he can characteristic it in basic terms to genetics. considered one of Jeff Davis's fellow cross-dressers; the killer of John Wilkes sales space; a insurgent deserter whose better exacts his pound of flesh—all those characters and extra, via their twisted and torn vernaculars, search realizing and revival in R. T. Smith's terrific collection.

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