This issue of The Big Click will take you home, country roads… but just remember, you can never really go home again. If the idea of “country” makes you think about momma’s apple pie, or duck hunting with your daddy—or at least, the representations of such you’ve seen via books, television, or films—you’re in for a surprise. Guest editor Court Merrigan has assembled an issue full of country realness that Andy Griffith never had to deal with. So settle in, because we’ve got short fiction by Shannon Barber and Aaron Phillip Clark, nonfiction by Bart Schaneman, and capsule reviews of the latest, hottest crime fiction inside.

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