Surreal South
by Laura Benedict

Welcome to the dream world. What you are about to encounter is the unfiltered stuff of the dream, and that is wild, terrifying, provocative, and unsettling material. In this volume, some of the best living Southern writers are offering up a feast of their dreams, wonderful and awful in equal measure, for you to enjoy. These dream stories and poems will tell you what you have always known, but what you are too afraid to say out loud in the full light of day: that we are a race of chimeras, beings made up of the incompatible parts of innumerable mutually antagonistic creatures. Our pieces do not fit together. We are, when we’re willing to tell the truth about ourselves, surreal at our hearts. Welcome to the Surreal South.

Other Books by Laura Benedict

When I Make Love to the Bug Man
Collected Stories

Mystery Tribune: Issue No.17

The Erstwhile Groom
Murder Short Story

The Abandoned Heart
Bliss House Book 3

Charlotte's Story
Bliss House Book 2

Bliss House
Bliss House Book 1

The Hollow Woman
A Murder Short Story

Calling Mr. Lonely Hearts

The Stranger Inside

Small Town Trouble
Trouble Cat Mysteries Book 5

At Home in the Dark

A Thousand Doors
An Anthology of Many Lives

Trouble Cat Mysteries: A Box Full of Trouble!
Trouble Cat Mysteries Book 1-5

The Trouble with Cupid
Trouble Cat Mysteries

Laura Benedict's Bio

Laura Benedict is the Edgar- and ITW Thriller Award- nominated author of eight novels of mystery and suspense, including The Stranger Inside (Publishers Weekly starred review), and the Bliss House gothic novels and stories. Her latest book is a compilation of her short fiction, When I Make Love to the Bug Man: Collected Stories. Her stories have appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, Strand Magazine, and in numerous anthologies. A native of Cincinnati, Ohio, she lives in Southern Illinois with her family.