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Tim Peeler: Résumé (fiction)

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Here’s a fan favorite from Mule writer Tim Peeler. So much code to delete, it took forever to clean this one up. This came from the Wayback Machine. 1990s Classic Dead Mule School of Southern

Kristin Sample: Lost Raven Moms Yahoo Group (fiction)

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: … a short story I wrote about Debra, her big ideas about school drop off, and the special brand of passive aggression that can only be found in Southern mom groups. The story

Rae Monroe: The Cowmilker

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in backwoods Mississippi, and spent my youth bouncing between my homestate, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, and Virginia. I also spent some time in Florida, but many consider it to

Julia Hogan: Jump School (short fiction)

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’m writing this on my porch, in a t-shirt, in December, drinking a PBR. Jump School See, I didn’t learn how to jump out of airplanes the old fashioned way. This was

L.B. Sedlacek: The Care and Feeding of Cemeteries (fiction)

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Southern Legitimacy Statement:  I grew up in western North Carolina and that’s still where I live now under the shadows of the nearby Blue Ridge Mountains. Except for a stint in Washington DC (which is

Jessica Simpkiss: A dance with the devil when the music won’t stop (flash fiction)

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: Despite being born in Sin City, I was raised on I-95, traveling and living in all the states between the Mason Dixon Line and the Florida Everglades, always finding home in a North

Aimee Keeble: No Ode to Oxy (essay)

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I live in North Carolina. This area of America has been savaged by Oxycontin or as they call it around here ‘hillbilly heroin.’ I’ve met a lot of people who have been affected

John Brewer: The Sounds of the South (fiction)

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am a child of rural Texas. The southern part not the Western part. I was raised by an Alabama born grandmother. As such I believe bacon brings us closer to God and

Mourning Dove by Claire Fullerton (a novel)

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“I’d never had a broken heart and didn’t understand the difference between what you feel and what you have to do.”  The novel, Mourning Dove embraces an enduring story of the 1970s American South and holds

Michael Wade: Collard Heaven (Fiction)

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Southern Legitimacy Statement (one of the best ever): After we moved to the burbs off the farm in Down East North Carolina, my Daddy wanted to make sure his boys didn’t forget our roots. So one

Daun Daemon: Good Customers (fiction)

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SOUTHERN LEGITIMACY STATEMENT: Born and raised in Caldwell County, North Carolina, I have lived in the Old North State most of my life (except for two soggy years in Oregon – what was I thinking?).

Jake W. Ford: A Fear All Her Own (flash fiction)

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Southern Literacy Statement:  I’m a fifth generation East Tennessean. I’ve cleared fields, dug post holes, chopped wood, and hauled hay. Had a beagle named Clyde that wadn’t worth a damn. As a teen I worked

Joshua Wilson: A Man Named Karen (fiction)

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: What on earth is a “Southern Legitimacy Statement” ??? I”m only typing in this box because it’s required. *ah ha! Someone didn’t pay attention to the directions, Ed. A Man Named Karen Karen’s

Cecil Geary: An Early Death (fiction)

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was raised in central Kentucky, southern Indiana, and southern California. The events in this story happened a long time ago, at the end of a war that few remember. An Early

Valerie MacEwan: Local Girls Finds Glory (short fiction)

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I knew I’d best get in the mail before I got dressed for Mama’s funeral.  Sand burrs and beggar lice spank my Converse hightops as I wade through knee-high ditch weeds to get to Mama’s

Phillip Hall: Special Delivery (Short Fiction)

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I live in Virginia, along with most of my family. Special Delivery The year was 1995.  The internet was still brand new, and cell phones hadn’t become mainstream.  Social media had yet to

Nick Bertelson: It Says Something about a Man (fiction)

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: Though I live in Iowa, I know a lot of men around here who inexplicably speak in a southern accent. In fact, it was a man like that who inspired the story I

Brodie Lowe: Saddling (fiction)

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: North Carolinian by birth. Raised on about ten acres of land where I roamed as a kid with a coonskin hat and Red Ryder BB gun, imagining myself to be Davy Crockett —

Eric Luthi: Waffles and Bacon (Fiction)

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: Pliny was a Roman statesman who lived about the time of Christ. He was also a naturalist and that is how I came to be acquainted with his writings. “Robur the oak,” is

Brian Frazier: One Call (flash fiction)

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: The Fraziers come from the Kentucky Hills with a history of fixing cars and women’s hair. My grandpa, or Pa, distilled corn liquor and raised chickens. My Papa bought and sold cars
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