South of Okeechobee
- Authors
- Daniel Powell
- Publisher
- Daniel Powell
- Tags
- florida , folklore , moonshining , skunk ape
- Size
- 0.27 MB
- Lang
- en
Somewhere in the River of Grass lives a sad and solitary creature. Once a man, this cursed monster now haunts the margins of human imagination, forever searching for his murdered love...
A rip-roaring slice of Florida Folklore, "South of Okeechobee" is an origin story of one of the American Souths great mythological creatures: the Florida Skunk Ape. Blending prohibition, cryptozoology, southern magic, and a little bit of moonshinin, "South of Okeechobee" is pure, high-octane Florida gothic...
This short story (4500 words) originally appeared in the collection The Silver Coast and Other Stories.