GREG DOWNS Spit Baths


Selected Works

Book
Spit Baths
Flannery O'Connor Award-winning collection of short stories

Short Stories
I Do Not Support the Troops
This story about a young woman and her tense and tender ties to her nephew is the first post-Spit Baths story I have published, in serial form in the arts section of the Louisville Courier-Journal.

Black Pork

A "simultaneously excruciating and deeply insightful commentary about race," this story follows the intertwined lives of two neighboring families, one white, one black.

Adam's Curse

The first, shortest, and (according to Kirkus) the best short story in the collection, forthcoming from New Letters.

Indoor Plumbing

Short story from the collection that appeared in StorySouth

Field Trip

Short story from the collection that appeared in Philadelphia Stories

Other published stories in the collection

Ten of the other eleven stories in the collection have been published or are forthcoming this fall.

Published stories not in the collection

Short stories I've published that are not in the collection.



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Other published stories from the collection

“Indoor Plumbing,” short story, forthcoming, StorySouth, September 2006.

“The Hired Man,” short story, forthcoming, Witness special issue, Exile in America, Fall 2006.

“Adam’s Curse,” short story, forthcoming, New Letters, Spring 2006.

“Between States,” short story, Black Warrior Review, Spring/Summer 2006.

“Snack Cakes,” short story, Glimmer Train, Winter 2004.

“Hope Chests,” short story, Meridian, Fall/Winter 2001.

“Ain’t I A King, Too?” short story, Greensboro Review, Spring 2000.

“Freedom Rides,” short story, Southeast Review, Fall 2002.

“A Comparative History of Nashville Love Affairs,” short story, Wind, Winter 2002.

“Spit Baths,” short story, Sycamore Review, Summer/Fall 2002.



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