Seven Southern Tales Plus One, a collection of short stories born from Mississippi memories and imagination, span race, class, and time. These stories pulsate with Southern life sprinkled by the hopes, fears, assertions, and misconceptions that rule the characters' lives. In Through the Mist a young man faces life and pain after his father's disappearance by discovering a gift, a promise his father had given him, when he enters a painting of a mallard in a stamp contest. Swing Low Sweet Chariot chronicles the relationship of a young White girl to her Black maid in 1964 Mississippi, and how...