New to this Substack -- I'm a southern fiction writer and lived in NC for several wonderful years. The picture on this post of Caudill's market grabbed my eyeballs. I used Caudill's Food Market in a short story of mine (Magnolia Nights), a wholly fictional food market created entirely in my imagination from little small town grocers and general stores from when I grew up. I chose the name Caudill in the story rather randomly -- a friend of a friend was a country music songwriter named Caudill, and I just wanted to use that name in the story. To see a photo that matched not only the name I used in the story, but very closely matched the image in my head when I wrote it, was almost unsettling, but in a good way. Thanks!
New to this Substack -- I'm a southern fiction writer and lived in NC for several wonderful years. The picture on this post of Caudill's market grabbed my eyeballs. I used Caudill's Food Market in a short story of mine (Magnolia Nights), a wholly fictional food market created entirely in my imagination from little small town grocers and general stores from when I grew up. I chose the name Caudill in the story rather randomly -- a friend of a friend was a country music songwriter named Caudill, and I just wanted to use that name in the story. To see a photo that matched not only the name I used in the story, but very closely matched the image in my head when I wrote it, was almost unsettling, but in a good way. Thanks!
I love this, happy early birthday Spencer!!!!! <33