Welcome to the Surreal South, the dream of the nation within the nation, the world within the world, shadowed by all the unmitigated horrors and illuminated by all the dubious glories of its distant and ill-remembered past, a puzzle, a slightly gruesome enticement, a boundless ambiguity, an enduring paradox, and an endless source of myth.

Contributors:

A.K. Thompson

Alexander Lumans

Anne Valente

Anthony Neil Smith

Brad Green

Gregory Wolos

J.T. Ellison

James O’Brien

Jedidiah Ayres

Jim Walke

John Horner Jacobs

John McManus

Josh McCall

Julia Patt

Josh Woods

Laura Benedict

Marilyn Moriarty

Mark Fleming

Michael Kardos

Nik Korpon

Pinckney Benedict

Reuben Hayslett

Robert Busby

Robert Hill Long

Ron Lands

Rose Bunch

Sheryl Monks

Sophie Littlefield

Susan Woodring

Victor Schultz