Down South

By Geri Buckley Borcz

In releasing this short-fiction sampler, I'm sharing my Southern roots.

The American writer and literary critic Alfred Kazin once said, "The South has produced writers as the Dark Ages produced saints," and I believe there's truth in his words, for the writers who fired my imagination when I was growing up all hailed from down South.

Each story is a quick and economical read - seven or fewer pages in length - and was inspired by true events.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Geri Buckley Borcz
• Release date: Oct 25, 2012
• ISBN: 9781301694709

Geri Buckley Borcz

A Georgia, USA, native, Geri Buckley Borcz writes general fiction short stories, historical and contemporary romance novels, and women's fiction. Her short fiction has appeared in several publications, including The Edifice of Literature, The Roswell Literary Review, The Southern Ocean Review, Ashes anthology, and the literacy textbook series Rhoades to Reading. Geri's novels have been a SARA finalist for Best First Book, an EPPIE winner for Best Historical Romance, and a Rose Award nominee. She's also shortlisted in the Maggie Awards, the Suzannah Nelson Davis Awards, the New Century Writer Awards, and the Write Touch Readers' Award. She is a member of Romance Writers of America, The Authors Guild, and Novelists, Inc.

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DOWN SOUTH

a

short fiction sampler

by

Geri Buckley Borcz

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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual places, events, persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Copyright 2012 by Geri Buckley Borcz

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Dear Reader:

I'm sharing my Southern roots in releasing this short fiction sampler.

The American writer and literary critic Alfred Kazin once said, The South has produced writers as the Dark Ages produced saints, and I believe there's truth in his words, for the writers who fired my imagination when I was growing up all hailed from down South.

Each story is a quick and economical read - seven or fewer pages in length - and was inspired by true events. They originally appeared in a variety of venues, and while my writing has seen many changes over the years, my love of writing in different forms and time periods has never wavered.

Please know I truly appreciate loyal readers like you and value your feedback. Why not take a moment to drop me a line and let me know how I'm doing?

My best,

Geri

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Table of Contents

Copyright

Dear Reader

Story 1 - Crapped Out Again

Story 2 - Conspiracy of Silence

Story 3 - The Story of Julia

Story 4 - Remove Smigma with Cat Butter

Story 5 - Sweet Denial

About the Author

More Works by Geri

Story 1

Crapped Out Again

short fiction

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Two blessed weeks of wet and dreary, and the toilet in Adlee Bruner's cabin glubglubglubbed until it couldn't work up a convincing glub anymore. This left Adlee two sorry choices for his morning sit-down: trot out behind a loblolly pine in forty degree rain or hang his bare backside over the porch railing.

He tried them both when his septic tank filled with water, and so help him, couldn't rightly see much to recommend either one.

One quick crouch behind the wrong tree and poison oak crawled up spots he druther it not. And the water sluicing off the cabin's tin roof got him cleaner than his mama ever dreamed he'd