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Dale Wisely: Dead Bulls

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: Dale Wisely grew up in rural Arkansas. His father didn’t speak much, but Dale remembers these two things his father said: (1) Son, your oil is the lifeblood of anything mechanical and (2)

Carolyn Flynn : Improvising

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: My Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am a native-born Kentuckian with a journalism degree from the University of Kentucky and quite a few past newspaper lives in the Bluegrass State and one in Mississippi,

Walter B. Thompson: Death and Christmas, a short story

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Southern Legitimacy Statement I was born and raised in Nashville. My mother’s people come from Shelbyville, Tennessee, where the pencil factories are. My father was born in Columbia, Mississippi, just like Walter Payton. His mother,

Aimee Keeble: Red Dog, a short story

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: Growing up in Florida during the war with Iraq I saw the resulting effects ravage a generation of young men with all good intentions. Red Dog Mama cracked an egg and I fell

Alan Good: Paris (When I Die) a short story

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in southwest Missouri. My parents were divorced, and they both lived in trailers. That’s not so much a Southern thing as an economic one. I never really thought of myself

Joey Holland: When a Ten Cent Cigar Cost a Dime and a Quaalude Cost Three Bucks

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: My family never hid our crazy folks; they generally sat on the front porch and enjoyed the breeze just like the family who weren’t crazy. Come to think of it, we all

Mamie Pound: Man in Blue, a short story

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: Mamie Pound lives in Columbus, Georgia. Man in Blue She was in the garden, a hoe in one hand, a cup of coffee in the other, a wool sweater over her nightgown.

Nelson Lowhim: The Artist

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: Was in the south when in the Army. Good times. Or not. Here’s a piece about the scars some carry along with their long and sordid history. The Artist I once knew a

Josh Patrick Sheridan: Pride (a short story)

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’m born and raised in Lewisburg, a small West Virginia town a heavy stone’s throw from the southern border with Virginia. I went to elementary school with a drawl and to high

Cormac McShane: Ruin (short fiction)

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: My Southern-ness is complex, and split between pride and shame. My mother is from Virginia, and a descendant of the Prestons who came over in the early eighteenth-century. Smithfield Plantation near Blacksburg

Carrie Martin: Tuesday Afternoon (short fiction)

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised in TN, but have made the Southern circuit. I currently reside in Greenville, SC. Tuesday Afternoon “We gotta git the house ready for visitors,” she stated, matter

Rick Hoffman: Be Good for Goodness’ Sake (short fiction)

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am a transplanted person. I live in the Northeast, but I was raised in Mississippi and Louisiana, and I visit the South Carolina Lowcountry twice a year. I cannot quit the

Ted Harrison: Pop and Water Oaks (short fiction)

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MY SOUTHERN LEGITIMACY STATEMENT I am a born and bred North Carolinian.  My life has included having my pictured made with Al “Lash” LaRue at the State Theatre in Salisbury.  I met Andy Griffith and even

Christopher Allen: Father-Son Activity (short fiction)

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My Southern Legitimacy Statement:  I was raised “in town,” which means Nashville, but my mother’s family comes from Bell Buckle, which is near Hatchet Holler where my mother was born (she says “borned”) in a

Neva Bryan: Sparks and Vinegar (Short Fiction)

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: Kentucky-born and Virginia-raised, I am the daughter and granddaughter of coal miners. As a child, I played in the woods every summer day, caught lightning bugs in jars at night, and made lunch

A. R. Robins: What I’ve Been Dreaming … (short fiction)

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What I’ve Been Dreaming I had a dream about the baby inside me, swimming around like a little goldfish, like my body was a bowl full of cold water or maybe more like a dark

Anne Anthony: Music As Her Refuge (Fiction)

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Southern Legitimacy Statement Anne Anthony lives in North Carolina though when she engages you in conversation it’s clear she was born above the Mason-Dixon Line. Still, if she’s reading you her stories, sometimes her voice

Helen Wurthmann: Not Funny Ha-Ha (fiction)

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised in Missouri, whose Southern statehood led to the civil war, regardless of whether or not modern Missourians consider themselves Southerners. Missouri and I are the middle children of

Nina Fosati: You Got to Throw the Little Ones Back (flash fiction)

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Southern Legitimacy Statement We’ve got Texas relatives who, for years, have told us we have to move to the land of living large. I witnessed the following exchange at the Houston airport. You Got to

Cecil Geary: The End of the Pier (short fiction)

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was raised in central Kentucky, southern Indiana, and southern California. We moved to California when I was twelve years old. The End of the Pier It was still dark when we started
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