The fifteen stories contained in this collection are all individual. None of them are about the same characters or locations. Although they do share commonality: they are all based upon Southern personalities in various Southern locations. There is a slight bend towards autobiographical experiences in some of these stories. I ll let the readers try to identify those particular stories themselves!
The author s attempt in writing these stories is to illustrate the frailties, the strength, and the inherent goodness of the human species. To show that all of us are endowed with the capacity to love, to hate, to daydream, and perhaps, to make our dreams come true.
The story: Big Game Hunter is about a twelve-year-old boy in rural Mississippi who fantasizes of being a professional hunter in Africa. I know something of that dream and managed to actually participate in eleven safaris in six African countries. I lived my dream!
The story, Requiem For A Romance That Could Never Be, is about the dark times in the South. The period that we all want to forget, that we wish had never happened. It s about a sweet, biracial romance between teenagers when the South was segregated.
Lost At The Falling Waters details a young woman s quest to find her father a young Southern American soldier. Her teenage parents were separated in Vietnam when that country literally fell apart. Her dream was beautifully realized!
Aunt Sabbath Muggy and the Irreversible Hoodoo is a story about a Black-magic woman in coastal Georgia. Aunt Sabby brings two lovers together, inadvertently but very successfully!
Cry Me A River is a story set in New Orleans. A young romance fell apart, but they reunited in very different circumstances many years later. One of the greatest inherent attributes as human beings is forgiveness; it s warmly illustrated in this somewhat-tragic story.
Whom Shall I Choose is about a young man named Jesse James Cuevas. He lived a hard life growing up, some of it in reform school and foster care. But when avaricious people tried to manipulate him, Jesse s true character came through.
In addition to these six stories, illustrated above, there are nine more of them. I had a lot of fun writing them . I hope that you enjoy reading them.
Jerry Edwards
Somewhere in the hills, north of Atlanta
Jerry Edwards is an 83-year-old writer. He s a retired retail business executive. Business aside, his lifetime passion has always been literature. This collection of short stories about southern characters and locations is his fourth book and second novel. He has also published two volumes of poetry, written in free verse.
