S.D. Smith is best-known for his humorous short story serial The Fledge Chronicles and hopes to soon have a broader audience with his debut speculative fiction novel, Shadwell. More details are forthcoming on that front. Smith is also a regular blogger, both here at http://www.sdsmith.net/blog/ and The Rabbit Room. 

The Fledge Chronicles

The Fledge Chronicles are a lark, mining the humorous potentiality of rural Appalachian life with the love that only a native son can have. Fledge is a fictional, rural town in southern West Virginia. It is reminiscent of some of the work of Garrison Keiller, P.G. Wodehouse, and G.K. Chesterton –with satire and wit that is sharp and sweet. Smith’s writing is like a barb that both tickles and cuts. You’ll be laughing all the way to Placebo Memorial, the town’s tiny hospital.

Fledge is populated with an odd assortment of characters and we meet them through the eyes of Ben Gray. Ben is the Mayor’s assistant and first-hand witness to the tragicomedy that is daily life in Fledge. It’s often a tragedy for Ben, but for the reader it is satirical comedy in heaping, southern spoonfuls.

Note: Illustration of Heck Davis by Rex Queems.