Southern Fried Women

by Pamela King Cable
Publisher: Spotlight Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 0-9768469-3-4
$14.95

"If you don't find yourself devouring this delicious book of stories, by Pamela King Cable, then you are not a Southern Fried Woman (or Man). After laughing and crying your way through this collection, you will eagerly await new offerings from this talented writer!"
-Cassandra King, author of Making Waves, The Sunday Wife, The Same Sweet Girls

A history of bigotry in a local diner is uncovered in Pigment of my Imagination, as the owner defends two young women and their right to be served; Vernell Paskins, Mobile Home Queen, is a woman who lives in the land of the doublewides and works at the interstate flea market; Cry finds a pregnant woman lost, alone, broken down on a deserted road, and in labor; an unexplained stranger arrives in town after a womens prayer group hears angels sing during a violent coal mine strike in Coal Dust On My Feet; in Punkin Head, one woman struggles with the decision to keep her unborn baby, as her husbands employera popular televangelistis opposed to having children; in The Homestead, a dead woman reveals that death is not the end of existence; a single mother discovers why her young son despises their one-Sunday-a-month guest in Old Time Religion; two Pentecostal young ladies escape and become Beach Babies shedding their cotton dusters for bathing suits, makeup, and getting their fortunes told at Carolina Beach; and grief shows up 30 years after a woman forgets her best friend in No Time For Laura.

These are the stories in this collection that examine sometimes seriously and at other times with humor themes of forgiveness, death, love, discovery, racial conflict, faith, tragedy, innocence, destiny, guilt, and overcoming insurmountable obstacles. Set in various locations and periods in the South, the stories present realistic characters in common situations facing questions of meaning, purpose, and the existence of God in their lives. Southern Fried Women is a compelling collection from a powerful new voice in fiction.