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Channel: Fiction – The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature

Jessica Arzola-Grissom :: Her Pretty Little Head ::

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Southern Legitimacy My great-grandmother’s name was Cinderella and she settled in Nederland, TX. The family didn’t quite live up to the fairy-tale name and several people moved just south of Dallas. That’s when I entered the picture. My Mama is a Texas Cajun and my Daddy was Mexican American. Together, they created a feisty Texas […]

Ellen Perry :: The Door ::

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Southern Legitimacy Statement -I was born in North Carolina and lived here all my life (almost 50 years, now, good Lord). Dad is from east Tennessee, Mom from Georgia – I’m a hybrid, then, of Deep South and Appalachian sensibilities. The Door Donnie, 38Gabrielle, 40 DONNIE Dad’s here and said he’d help us with the […]

Lorena Pimentel :: Gummy Bears ::

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If the South is a state of mind and all we need is a good old penchant for mysteries and a mosaic of everythig we’ve know, the Globl South is my South. I am a writer, editor and translator from South America, trying to mashup a good amount of pop culture references as a personality […]

Noah Banta :: A City’s Lagniappe History Of Old And New People ::

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: Spent my entire life living in a town being constantly expanded upon where I can’t remember ever being a time where a highway wasn’t being constructed over my house or a night sleep without the muffler of an ATV waking me up. But I can remember nights of High School football where […]

John Riley ::What Did She Lose?::

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Southern Legitimacy Statement A field did stretch between our old house in Randolph County, with its recently exposed plumbing that froze every winter, and a much nicer house across the field. The people who lived in the nice house wanted nothing to do with us newcomers from the housing project in High Point, although Mr. […]




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