Each week, Sunday Reader features an original work of short ction or poetry by a Southern writer. A graduate of Alfred University, Ball earned a master's in English literature at the University of Maryland and a Ph.D. in theater at the University of Minnesota. Ball is a trial consultant based in Durham.
Ball lives in Durham.
In 1872 a New York Herald reporter travels to Robeson County to cover an outlaw band led by legendary Lumbee Indian Henry Berry Lowery. The outlaws kidnap the reporter. The outlaws went to sleep with no more preparation than lying down. I changed into my nightgown. Henry Berry Lowery stared.