Sidney Thompson's short fiction has been published in the Southern Review, the Carolina Quarterly, Louisiana Literature, and New Delta Review and has been anthologized in The Alumni Grill, Climbing Mt. Cheaha: Emerging Alabama Authors, and two volumes of Stories from the Blue Moon Cafe. "The Good Lie" (published in Sideshow as "The Aristotelian") was awarded third place in Playboy Magazine's College Fiction Contest. Thompson has worked jobs as various as assembling blinkers on tractor trailers, loading and unloading airplanes at Federal Express, teaching world literature at a prep school, and