"My Neighbors, Goodlife, Mississippi" is a collection of eleven stories written by Mary "Myra" Boone, a recurring character in Eileen Saint Lauren's work. Her characters speak guiding truth as did Flannery O'Connor oftentimes, with the purest of voices. Magical realism, the supernatural, sophisticated suspense, and the sublime pervading the stories ranges from conjuring of spirits, catbirds and honey breezes, sudden angelic appearances, occurrences of light to interludes of non-consuming fire, n...