Phillip T Kehoe :: Bucktown Mona Lisa ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Fifty years within fifty miles of Cafe du Monde is surely south of somewhere. Yet in all the places I have lived I have heard people say: “Down here,” prefacing all that...
View ArticleThomas Scott McKenzie: Barges
An exceptional story by one of our favorite writers... so happy to have finally found this again.
View ArticleJohn Tarkov – Mule Heaven
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Some of the best days of my life were spent in the state of Virginia.
View ArticleJim Rogers :: Dirt Wars ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: My Big Ditch Daddy finally made enough money selling used cars to build Mama a new house he had promised. It meant that our favorite play place, the Big Ditch would get...
View ArticleLauren Robertson :: Water Witching ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: After attending high school in central Mississippi, I was determined to leave the South. I went to school for radiology, only to realize I envied the people doing the...
View ArticleMule Redux Mea Culpa :: Writers in the Storm ::
Into this barn you’re born. The Doors reference there. Shows my age. Not original with me, the Writers in the Storm part, but it’s clever. Wandering through the Dead Mule Calendar on Submittable, I...
View ArticleDavid Swan :: An Uncloudy Day ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Though I grew up in Michigan, my Southern leanings emerged in college when I studied blues, jazz, and Faulkner. I’ve lived in the South for more than two decades now, and...
View ArticleJames Roderick Burns :: Don’t Mention the Mole Men ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Married to a woman from Ocilla, GA (featured here in childhood). Also, previously published in the Dead Mule and that’s southern forever. Don’t Mention the Mole Men IT...
View ArticlePhillip T Kehoe :: Bucktown Mona Lisa ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Fifty years within fifty miles of Cafe du Monde is surely south of somewhere. Yet in all the places I have lived I have heard people say: “Down here,” prefacing all that...
View ArticleJim Rogers :: Dirt Wars ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: My Big Ditch Daddy finally made enough money selling used cars to build Mama a new house he had promised. It meant that our favorite play place, the Big Ditch would get...
View ArticleGary Bolick :: God Has a Bent Mower Blade ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Winston-Salem, NC. Dad wanted a house near his favorite uncle, so we moved to Clemmons, a village west of the city. Uncle Albert and his wife Germond lived...
View ArticleLarry Blazek :: Yard Saleing With the Ex ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Stayed in Texas and Southern California… Yard Saleing With the Ex Your ex-wife convinces you to ride along with her to the big yard sale. Youwear your new pants. The sale...
View ArticleJacob Stump :: What Lives Up Mud Creek Holler ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised on the Appalachian end of Virginia. All my family are still there. I return often to do family stuff up on the mountain. What Lives Up Mud Creek...
View ArticleGrady VanWright :: The Wormhole Killers ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Grady VanWright was born and raised in Houston, Texas, where he admires the skyscrapers and skillfully sidesteps horseshit on his morning strolls. He adheres to a strict...
View ArticleHarry James :: Orlan Feal ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was a soldier once, born south of the Ohio River in a border state that declared itself neither North, nor South in that most uncivil of civil wars. I grew up on a...
View ArticleW Joe Taylor :: The Bared Bear ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Yep, even though I was born in Cincinnati, I’ve spent all but three days of my life in the South, those being Kentucky, Florida (gasp), Georgia and Alabama. A friend...
View ArticleDeborah Wilbrink :: The Proposal and the Purse ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Atlanta, and birthed my son at home on the edge of Piedmont Park. I lost some of my accent by being a deejay 50 years ago, when the homogenous “urban”...
View ArticleMichael Gray :: The Floor ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in southwest Kentucky near the Tennessee line. Although I live on the east coast now, I still eat cornbread with hot sauce at least a couple times each week....
View ArticleScott Beard :: Rising Fog ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I wish all these people from California would stop moving here. Rising Fog Born in a back alley on a Thursday, my nativity predisposed me to drinking; but I can’t say it...
View ArticleEdward Burke :: Texas Experiment in Mortuary Science ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’ve been south of south for so long I can’t even remember the last time I saw Ursas Major or Minor, I guess they’re still up there somewhere. The quantum perturbations...
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