Magazine

Issue 4, Winter 1994

"This quarterly has tons of promise."—The USA Today

"Elegantly designed...this is fresh, original writing, a pleasure to read."—the New Orleans Times-Picayune

"The most promising literary magazine in the nation."—The Memphis Commercial-Appeal

"An excellent new literary magazine."—The Lufkin (Texas)

"Could become a journal of some of the finest writing the South has to offer."—(North Carolina) Spectator

BEFORE THE WINDS CAME
A farming family’s slow entry into the modern age.
by Madison Jones

BROTHERS
A painful, criminal parting of ways.
by Daniel Lyons

RACING ON MISSISSIPPI DIRT
The wonderful world of small-town auto-racing.
by Susan Lee

SCARLETT LETTERS
An uncurmudgeon-like look at a Southern classic.
by Florence King

THE LOST MASTERPIECE OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
An underrated play of the Mississippi native, dissected.
by Steve Vineberg

REMEMBERING GRAMPS
The old man takes a tumble.
by Jeff Baker

FREE LANCE IN BOSNIA
A Ruleville native reaches the front.
by John Hester

24 HOUR ELVIS
The King revisited.
by Scott Morris

SIEGING VICKSBURG
Mississippi wasn’t always so quiet.
by Gerald Wade

FOR THE LOVE OF ALMA
The creepy wages of fame.
by Charles Taylor

AZZA
by Jamie Simpson

ON THE BANKS OF THE UNIVERSITY
by Charles Bukowski

FLOOD
by J.E. Pitts

TRUE CRIME
by Donna Tartt

THE RHINO IN THE BURGER KING
by Ron Rash

Cover Photography by William Eggleston