Proving that the waters of Southern talent run deep and traditions are meant to be both honored and stood on their ear, the third volume of Stories from the Blue Moon Caf? IV presents the most talented practitioners of Southern writing. This year's anthology includes writing from Rick Bragg, William Gay, and Suzanne Hudson amongst others. Readers need not ever have set a foot south of the Mason-Dixon Line to appreciate the bold, the brash, the horrifying and the humorous short stories, essays, poems, and even songs from the South's preeminent authors and its strongest new voices gathered together for a feast in Stories from the Blue Moon Caf? IV. Fans of Southern literature cannot miss this Includes: Our Uncle Willem Stanfield by Howard Bahr The good neighbors by John Boyer Dear friend by Rick Bragg Those summer Sundays by Andrea Hollander Budy An explanation by Andrea Hollander Budy In the thirteenth year of the jonquil by David E. Campbell Joe and Sheila by Marshall Chapman Like kudzu by Ryan Clark Pulp fishin' by Jim Dees Taking off from Welty by Ellen Douglas Spleen by Ann Fisher-Wirth Where, beneath the magnolia by Ann Fisher-Wirth Strawberry fizzle by Kristin Grant When the fish don't bite by Jason Headley The beauty seat by Ingrid Hill The thing with feathers by Suzanne Hudson Cicadas by Cecilia Johnson In the tall grass by Bret Anthony Johnston The midwife's son by Suzanne Kingsbury Ghost dance by Chip Livingston Lost, not lost by Humphreys McGee Jimmy the playwright began to slur by Jeff McNeil Talk by Diane McWhorter Broad and Jackson by Carol Megathlin Rehab by Janet Nodar Chicken bone man by Anna Olswanger The cryptograph by Nic Pizzolatto Chitlins by Robert St. John The turkey hunt by Philip Shirley Down there on a visit by Charles Simic Shadow and Solomon by Mac Walcott A full boat by Daniel Wallace The Freddies by M.O. Walsh A map of the forest by Marly Youmans