A collection of short stories about all kinds of people having bad or horrible luck. Mostly about Southerners, the stories vary from a young man determined to marry his girlfriend until her flirty schoolmate visits, a boy whose aunt tries to shame him into hunting, a woman whose romantic hopes are crushed by her pen pal, a man who can't forgive himself for directing a woman to the bad part of town, and the mob mentality that leads to the murder of a neighbor in "Saturday Afternoon".

The stories are written in a plain, straight-forward way with little inner dialogue or complexities. The characters tend to have one problem and the endings either give a solution or imply that the character will have to continue with their problem as that's just the way things are. Written in the early '30's, be prepared to see racial slurs. ( )