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~Spring '07 Featured Articles~ _________________________ Saucy Miss Grazi by Leroy Morganti Faulkner and Yaknapatawpha Country by Mary A. Scobey Southern Ice Box Rolls by Keetha D. Reed Tensas ~ Two Poems by James Garland Strother How You Handle A Guy by Bill Fullerton A Boy and His Treasure by Gene Greene Goodson Miss Spongy by Eddie E. Draper John Edge's DONUTS reviewed by Augusta R. Scattergood Searching for the Inner Animal by Beth Boswell Jacks The Scars Turned To Flowers by Gene Owens Slide Down My Cellar Door! by Carl Wayne Expensive Dancing Specks by Charles W. Dowdy Bittersweet Memories by Newt Harlan Speaking of Tunica... by Kent Fletcher Once a Yankee... by Marshall Dean Lyrics and Virgins and Grasshoppers, oh my! by Susan Moody The Ole Beige Bomb by Anne McKee The Free Lunch by Ralph Gordon Sweet Potato Soup by Phil Bratcher Ode to Baseball Brothers by Kenny Antigues Southern Talk - II by Grady Givens Jackson, Mississippi~My Hometown by Chuck Jones Riding the Old Sow by Gilda G. Brown What Happened to Supper? by Arnold Dyre I Don't Do Pets! by Melanie M. Mansfield If You Believe in Heaven... by David Norris Finding Your Face by Jackie Cooper Fresh Flowers ~ or None At All? by Alita DeBerry Billy Byrden by Asa Sparks Daddy, Uncle Jack and the Turkey Shoot by Pat Keadle I Remember Guy Bush by Mary A. Scobey Parchman Farm Tale by Andy McNeil It's A Good Life! by Ann Ipock ________________________ Don't forget to visit the ARCHIVES ________________________

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