That Southern Thing: –living, loving, laughing, loathing, leaving the South

Third in the series of the Personal Story Publishing Project.
Forty-two writers from around the South–now or formerly–share 45 personal stories of their living, loving, laughing, loathing, and even leaving this unique, quirky, welcoming, troubled, challenging, and always interesting region. That Southern thing, whatever it is, binds them and us together by geography, family, history, choice, happenstance, misfortune, and, for some, by the grace of God.

This collection includes 45 personal stories, each no longer than 800 words, resonating with some element of the theme, That Southern Thing–living, loving, laughing, loathing, leaving the South. Stores were selected from submissions to the annual Call for Personal Stories for the Personal Story Publihing Project.