<p><strong>Thirty stories, collected in one volume for the very first time, from one of the South''s best known and most acclaimed short story writers.</strong></p><p>With his signature darkly acerbic and sharp-witted humor, George Singleton has built a reputation as one of the most astute and wise observers of the South. Now Tom Franklin introduces this master of the form with a compilation of acclaimed and prize-winning short fiction spanning twenty years and eight collections, including stories originally published in outlets like the<em> Atlantic Monthly, Harper''s, Playboy, the Georgia Review, the Southern Review</em>, and many more. A lovelorn and chatty euthanasia vet arrives at a couples’ house to put down their dog, Probate; a father-to-be searches his workplace<strong>—</strong>a bar<strong>—</strong>for a replacement sonogram after recording an episode of <em>Bonanza</em><span>over the original; an unlikely romance s