Tales From Jackson — Simple Grits

Road Home

Annie travels to Palm Springs to say good-bye to her mother, Catherine.
Carmen battles New Orleans’s Road Home program.

Fiction, Characters and Dialogue, New OrleansLydia CharlesJune 19, 2020

On quarantine.

Uncle Ray.

MississippiLydia CharlesJune 13, 2020Capers Building

My Hero

Mom and Wilma Rudolph. Grandma’s backyard. Baton Rouge. 1961.

Non-fiction, FamilyLydia CharlesJune 10, 2020Published

I know, son.

Mississippi, Characters and DialogueLydia CharlesMay 29, 2020Tales from Jackson

Sample Post #3

Laura Beth LottApril 29, 2020

Flying Nemesis

MississippiLydia CharlesApril 16, 2020Tales from Jackson

New applications of old words.

Lydia CharlesApril 16, 2020

Ashtray, by design.

Americans once worked in a cloud of smoke.

Non-fiction, MississippiLydia CharlesOctober 29, 2019Capers Building, Tales from Jackson

19th Century Lobbyist

Mr. Smith Robertson

Mississippi, Non-fictionLydia CharlesMay 27, 2019Farrish Street, Tales from Jackson

James Patterson | Alternative Mississippi

No, not that James Patterson.

Non-fiction, MississippiLydia CharlesDecember 7, 2018Alternative Mississippi

Summertime Downtown

Mississippi Museum of Art

MississippiLydia CharlesJune 21, 2018

Lazy “YOK”

San Antonio, TX Cultural Project

Non-fictionLydia CharlesNovember 15, 2017

Lou's Full Serv

View from the bar.

MississippiLydia CharlesNovember 9, 2017Tales from Jackson

There are good things to feel.

Katie Eubanks. Celebrating five years cancer free.

Mississippi, Non-fictionLydia CharlesSeptember 30, 2017Tales from Jackson

The Spillway

Jackson, Louisiana. A small town just up the highway from Baton Rouge, East Feliciana Parish.

Catherine arranges a place for her daughter to recuperate after the accident. There Annie learns that white people too play Spades.

Fiction, New Orleans, Characters and DialogueLydia CharlesAugust 15, 2017

Dorothy

She had been wanted.

FictionLydia CharlesAugust 15, 2017Short Fiction

Four Women, Tired of Being Tired (excerpt)

The day after. November 9, 2016

Fiction, Characters and DialogueLydia CharlesMarch 3, 2017Four Women

It's Morning In America...

Lydia CharlesNovember 10, 2016

Venus | Fictional account based on WPA Slave Narratives (Mississippi)

Mississippi, Characters and Dialogue, FictionLydia CharlesMarch 1, 2016

Doc | Fictional account based on WPA Slave Narratives (Mississippi)

Fiction, Mississippi, Characters and DialogueLydia CharlesMarch 1, 2016

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