COW COLLEGE is a collection of 13 stories about the author's four years at Mississippi State University (then College) from 1957 - 1961. It is a work of fiction, but there is an underlying element of truth in each story and many of the people, places and major events are actual. Tom Lawrence calls his work "fictional fact or factional fiction" and states, ..".if the tales did not actually happen this way, they should have."