“On ‘Try a Little Tenderness’ by Otis Redding” by Leesa Cross-Smith

Written By Samantha Lamph

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Leesa Cross-Smith is a homemaker and has been a finalist for both the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction and the Iowa Short Fiction Award. She is the author of Every Kiss A War (Mojave River Press, 2014) and the forthcoming novel Whiskey & Ribbons (Hub City Press, March 2018). She lives and writes in Kentucky. You can find her website at: LeesaCrossSmith.com.

Samantha Lamph
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