Set in both the rural and the urban South, the stories in Walking Wounded are about the physical, mental, and emotional wounds that burden, challenge, and shape the characters in the stories

Cover by Deborah Ann Cidboy

Set in both the rural and the urban South, the stories in Walking Wounded are about the physical, mental, and emotional wounds that can afflict any of us and direct our lives. These stories consider the events and relationships that burden and challenge and shape the characters in the stories. Enter the world of a young Marine suffering from loss of his leg and loss of illusion, a mother demanding the honor due her dead son, a woman with a secret life outside an abusive marriage, a man who finds love at a dangerous place in the road, a man who marries but never truly knows a blind dancer.

The stories in Walking Wounded have won prizes (some more than one), or have been published, or both.

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The Communists of My Youth   Published in The Louisville Review, Spring, 2003. Winner of a Hackney Literary Award, 2003.
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Hot and Sunny On the Fourth   Published in Byline Magazine, 2004. Winner of an Alabama Writers Conclave contest, 2003. Winner of a ByLine contest, 2003.
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Rolling Salvation   Published in Appalachian Heritage, 2004. Winner of a Tennessee Mountain Writers contest, 2003. Winner of a Hackney Literary Award, 2001.

Fatback (also titled “The Smokehouse”) Winner of a Southeastern Writers Association contest, 2001. Winner of a ByLine contest, 1999. Winner of a Hackney Literary Award, 1999.

The Righteous Hammer of Jehovah (also titled “Life Force”)   Published in Byline Magazine, 2001. Winner of two Southeastern Writers Association contests, 2001.
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Strip Pit   Published in Confluence, 2004. Winner of a Southwest Writers contest, 2000.
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Posters   Published in The Tulane Review, Spring, 2001. Winner of a Hackney Literary Award, 2000.

Where Sin Lies Winner of a ByLine contest, 2003. Winner of a Southeastern Writers Association contest, 2001. Winner of an Alabama Writers Conclave contest, 2001.

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Malfunction Junction Winner of an Appalachian Writers Association contest, 2001.

Yard Sale Winner of a Southeastern Writers Association contest, 2003.

Dump Birds (Also titled “McGee the Inconsequent”) Winner of a Southeastern Writers Association contest, 2002.

Dark Dancing Winner of a Serpentine contest.