Our Uncle Willem Stanfield / Howard Bahr -- Good neighbors / John Boyer -- Dear friend / Rick Bragg -- Those summer Sundays ; An explanation / Andrea Hollander Budy -- In the thirteenth year of the jonquil / David Campbell -- Joe and Sheila / Marshall Chapman -- Like kudzu / Ryan Clark -- Pulp fishin' / Jim Dees -- Taking off from Welty / Ellen Douglas -- Spleen ; Where, beneath the magnolia / Ann Fisher-Wirth -- Strawberry fizzle / Kristin Grant -- When the fish don't bite / Jason Headley -- The beauty seat / Ingrid Hill -- The thing with feathers / Suzanne Hudson -- Cicadas / Cecilia Johnson -- In the tall grass / Bret Anthony Johnston -- The midwife's son / Suzanne Kingsbury -- Ghost dance / Chip Livingston -- Lost, not lost / Humphreys McGee -- Jimmy the playwright began to slur / Jeff McNeil -- Talk / Diane McWhorter -- Broad and Jackson / Carol Megathlin -- Rehab / Janet Nodar -- Chicken bone man / Anna Olswanger -- The cryptograph / Nic Pizzolatto -- Chitlins / Robert St. John -- The turkey hunt / Philip Shirley -- Down there on a visit / Charles Simic -- Shadow and Solomon / Mac Walcott -- A full boat / Daniel Wallace -- The Freddies / M.O. Walsh -- A map of the forest / Marly Youmans.