Pity the wolf that scratches at the door of Joe Potato's Real Life Recipes He might get invited in for dinner. Only if Flannery O'Connor and Gabriel Garcia Marquez swapped tall tales at an M.F.K. Fisher dinner party would you find characters like these. Quirky souls with their feet in the mud and the blood inhabit this thin volume of short stories with an Appalachian cadence and a Texas sense of humor. Nominated for the Weatherford Award. Editors' Pick -Story Circle Book Reviews. Listen on Dial-A-Story (207) 945-0098 during May, National Short Story Month. Looking for something new? Check out Long Row To Hoe http: //www.friedchickenandcoffee.com/2015/05/27/a-long-row-to-hoe-by-meriwether-oconnor/ at Fried Chicken And Coffee. It's from the new book due out this fall (2015), That Gardenia's Picking Up Pawpaws. Love it or hate it? Let us know: appalachianorth@hotmail.com.