Arts
Featured story: The Mattress Sleepovers, the debut short story collection by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips, takes us to a forgotten corner of the rural South, full of cemeteries, soybean fields, fishing holes, and Duck Thru gas stations. We meet a runaway teen, a mattress salesman, feral kittens, an elderly bachelorette wearing a horsehair locket, and a little girl named after Shania Twain. GET THE FULL AUDIOBOOK AT THETALKINGBOOK.ORG Sleepovers, written and read by Ashleigh Bryant Phillips, was recorded and produced at The Talking Book Studio in Asheville, NC.