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[12], 202 pages. Paperback: H 21.5cm x L 13.75cm. White paper covers with some toning and soiling; strong crease to rear cover's lower right; bookseller ticket/sticker for "Books & Co. Mobile, Alabama" affixed at rear cover's lower right. Non-authorial five-line ink inscription dated Christmas 1995 on front cover's blank verso. Small stain at lower fore-edge with a few leaves fractionally affected at margins; faint staining to text block's bottom edge; interior pages are otherwise clean. Binding is firm. Features Introduction by Janice and James White and concluding "Contributors" offering one sentence biographies of those individuals who contributed three leadoff essays - "Mobile" by Barry R. Nowlin; "The Inner Circle of the True Mobilian" by Franklin Daugherty; "Fairhope and the Eastern Shore" by Larry Allums - followed by twenty-four short stories: "Wild pigs" by Tom Franklin; "My short, sweet recess from conformity" by Sandra Whiting; "Dizzy countries" by Eugene Walter; "A crawdad, a bird, a dog and a boy" by James White; "Morningstar" by Robert Bahr; "The croaker zone" by Joe Formichella; "The ethics of pitching Jesus high and tight" by Brian Oberkirch; "Kurt loves Myra" by Cynthia Gramer; "The gumbo of art history" by Franklin Daugherty; "Close places" by Marty Murfin; "Saturday night in Mobile, 1958" by Gary Gay; "Camp Bronner" by Chris McFadyen; "Bane and blessing" by B. Whitehurst Rollins; "Primroses and prickly pears" by Genie Hamner; "A table before me" by Dedra Thorn; "Marianne's tale" by Walt Darring; "Ophelia" by McLeod Turner; "Maggie O'Hara" by Mary S. Palmer; "Giving Mama her dues" by Billie Moore; "Circular ceremony" by Donna Kelley; "Zeke's Landing" by Jim Gilbert; "A deed of trust" by Carolyn Haines; "Hemerocallis" by Thomas Perez; and "The bullwhip man" by Mary Martin Riser. ISBN 0916092135.