Cotton, Collards, and Church

By Thomas F. Clardy

I don’t want my stories to teach valuable lessons. I want you to laugh, maybe cry. I don’t want to condemn a way of life. I don’t want my stories to seem as if I’m a bitter person with an axe to grind. I don’t mean for my stories to represent to outsiders attributions or habits of the South that need correction or need to be changed. My stories of the South are what they are - characters surviving in a world of conflict trying to live the best way they can, and usually with funny results. As one character says in "The Squirrels of Sypsamulga": “As proud Southerners, we don’t take kindly to being told by Yankees what we are doing wrong. It might be the wrongest of the wrong, but we prefer that you didn’t correct us. Don’t come down here and think you know what’s going on. Heck, even we don’t know what’s going on here half the time.”

• Language: English
• Publisher: Thomas F. Clardy
• Release date: May 20, 2020
• ISBN: 9780463325759

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