The Gator and the Holy Ghost and Other Stories of a Slightly Reconstructed South

Have you ever seen the Devil singing with a choir? Did you ever drink a beer with a wolf-man? These and many more such images propel The Gator and the Holy Ghost and other Stories of a Slightly Reconstructed South. This bold collection of short fiction by James L. Fortuna Jr. explores the upheaval of the civil rights movement in the Deep South. In stories such as “Break of Day at the Woodbine, Georgia, Pecan Paradise and Cheap Gas” and “The Klansman in the Closet”—and many more-- Fortuna’s characters reveal the fear and uncertainty, hope and hatred of the Southern experience and the healing influence of faith.