This collection of short stories brings together the work of four award-winning fiction writers from South Carolina. The range of styles and subjects of these stories is as diverse as the landscape of the Palmetto State--from the offbeat humor of George Singleton's Outlaw Head and Tail , to the piercing passion of Rosa Shand's Density of Sunlight , to the sprawling strange drama of Scott Gould's Nothing Fazes the Autopilot , to the strange twists of Deno Trakas's Eugene . Introductions to the authors are provided by prominent novelists Josephine Humphreys, Fred Chappell, Bret Lott and Shelby Hearon.
Deno Trakas is the husband of my middle school and high school Spanish teacher and mentor. It was lovely to read short stories by Southern writers I didn't already know (other than Dr. Trakas). Very enjoyable, diverse, surprising.