Email Author Shelby Scates

1999 Stories by Shelby Scates

• Missing the bad old days

  published May 19, 1999

  Come midnight a few Saturdays ago, they closed down the last regular session of the state Legislature in the 20th century. No fanfare,... More >>

• PROGRESSIVES' PARADISE LOST?

  published April 28, 1999

  Up front, a personal note: I am a migrant, a native of the agrarian South come to what we have thought of as an earthly paradise, God's... More >>