Proving that the waters of Southern talent run deep and that traditions are meant to be both honored and stood on their ear, the third volume of Stories from the Blue Moon Café presents the most talented practitioners of Southern writing. Readers need not ever have set foot south of the Mason-Dixon Line to appreciate the bold, the brash, the horrifying, and the humorous short stories, essays, poems, and even songs from the South’s preeminent authors and its strongest new voices, gathered together for a feast in Stories from the Blue Moon Café III. About the Editor: Sonny Brewer owns Over the Transom Bookstore in Fairhope, Alabama. Editing, publishing, and writing have been the consistent threads in a tapestry of work that has included everything from radar and electronics repair to deck-handing on a tugboat, from magazine editing to teaching high school English, from freelance writing for lawyers and corporations to finding and publishing new writers. His debut novel, The Poet of Tolstoy Park, will be released in 2005.