Backwater Tales

Five novellas and short stories set in the American southeast. An elderly Choctaw recalls his youth and the De Soto expedition. Long after the war, a Confederate veteran has to marry to get a pension. After finding a gold star in her mother's collection of knick-knacks, a young woman in Alabama learns some family secrets. Lost in the woods, a man discovers a ghost at an old abandoned home. Finally, a young man out of law school decides to run for Congress somewhere in Appalachia.