Redgunk Tales: Apocalypse and Kudzu from Redgunk, Mississippi

Set in the town of Redgunk, Mississippi-with a population of 400 people, a dog with black, smelly lips, and a mummy – these interwoven stories owe as much to Sophocles as they do to Flannery O'Connor, exploring the human condition against a background of swamp gas and lawnmower fumes. Redgunk is a place where Otis Zebrowsky, cable repairman, can suddenly be sucked into a mythic world older than ancient Greece; and where intelligent women like Mina Thorton can find absolute happiness in the guise of a made-to-order alien mate. In these stories of ghosts, alien abductions, and genetic experiments gone awry, immersed in a setting singing with cicadas, crawling with kudzu, and as redneck as any in the South, characters live and breathe with genuine hearts.

Contents:

• Preface
• Lawnmower Moe
• The Secret of the Mummy's Brain
• Encounter in Redgunk
• Meadow Song
• Homesickness
• A God for Delphi
• How Boy Howdy Saved the World
• Unicorn Stew
• Roadkill Fred
• Dragon of Conspiracy
• Plain Female Seeks Nice Guy
• The Miracle of Swamp Gas Jackson
• Redgunk, Texas