Florida Stories Tales from the Tropics Author:John Harwood (Editor), Kirsten Miller (Editor) In Florida Stories: Tales from the Tropics, you will be drawn into an alluring collection of stories, essays and poems reflecting tropical Florida -- a tropical paradise where everything happens all the time. — Introduction / Bob Shacochis -- — Death of a pirate / John James Audubon -- — Gurdjieff in the sunshine state / Joy Williams ... more »--
The stone crab / Damon Runyon --
The long, lavender look / John D. MacDonald --
Ponce de Leon's fountain of youth / Nathaniel Hawthorne --
Miami / Joan Didion --
To have and have not / Ernest Hemingway --
How the three races were made / Seminole Tale --
The Walt "You Will Have Fun" Disney World themed shopping complex and resort compound / Dave Barry --
LaBrava / Elmore Leonard --
My birthplace / Zora Neale Hurston --
The diving bell / Tennessee Williams --
The exploration of Florida / Cabeza de Vaca --
Gregorio Valdes, sign painter / Elizabeth Bishop --
Los Gusanos / John Sayles --
The open boat / Stephen Crane --
Alone / Isaac Bashevis Singer --
Alligators fishing in the St. Johns River / William Bartram --
The idea of order at Key West / Wallace Stevens --