August 2017

A smell of pine and men at work By Bill Thompson I tend to meander through the past sometimes — more as I get older. Meandering is the perfect word for my thought process since it means there is [...]

Old friends, old metal, and both will be fine By Jason Mott I only ever saw him in passing: a car pulling in and out of a driveway, a silhouette cast against a low-slung sun as I pulled into my [...]

And the way to perfect it with myriad rums By Tony Cross The next time you’re in an establishment and you’re uncertain if the drinks on their cocktail list are any good or not, order a daiquiri. [...]

Famous banned book covers artfully reimagined Featuring Charlotte Oden, Debi Hammack, Mark Weber and Harry Taylor The first summer I went away to Boy Scout camp at age 11, I took an [...]

Fiction by Jill McCorkle Your husband is cheating on us. I’m assuming that he hasn’t told you yet. I’m the test wife and he tries everything out on me first, I mean everything. Remember when he [...]

Fiction by Lee Smith I come here to be touched. I want the lotion, the rubbing, the smoothing, the stroking, the pressing, the kneading fingers, the touch on my toes and feet and legs and hands [...]

The most unmistakable bird in our state is a natural enemy of wasps By Susan Campbell The swallow-tailed kite is, without a doubt, the most unmistakable of birds in our state — and perhaps [...]

How a former nun found her true calling as a midwife By Dana Sachs Over lunch at San Juan Café, nurse-midwife Mary Slawter and I are struggling to find the verb that best describes her role in [...]

Heat, ma’am! It was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones. — Sydney Smith, Lady Holland’s Memoir Berry Good If ever you’ve [...]

How the king of the legal thriller became an adopted son of Carolina By D.G. Martin When John Grisham’s latest novel, Camino Island, hit bookstore shelves in June, it immediately rose to number [...]