Sugar Baby and Other Stories

River Jordan is a holy truth-teller who can make even the bad things in life seem as sweet as sugar. The stories in Sugar Baby and Other Stories are as real as life itself but the language River uses to coat the pain is something from another world. Writer storyteller heart healer. River Jordan is simply the best. Wiley Cash author The Last BalladA union soldier who deserted a scared girl in an abandoned antebellum home a gravedigger looking for a wife seven sisters who will kill to protect each other a stake-out at a rundown hotel a Spanish priest trying to save his people from the Spanish flu a young girl sneaking off with an encyclopedia salesman an old woman aiming to use her last bullet. a woman framed for murder on All Saints Day a one-eyed outcast who lives down by the river. The characters in Short Baby and Other Stories are infused by desire touched by love and seeking retribution and redemption at every turn. Sugar Baby is storytelling of the highest order plucking up the reader and transporting them to a world of mystery spirituality violence love and everything in between.