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Karen Tardiff: Down By The River (Fiction) Jan 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement:  Born in Dallas and raised in the Piney Woods of East Texas, I now reside on the coast of South Texas. My family traces their roots all the way to the founding of a...

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Dan Leach : My Dad vs. Your Dad (fiction) Jan. 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I once moved to Nebraska. This after 28 years of legitimate southern living in upstate South Carolina. For two cold hard Midwestern years, I shivered inside a corn...

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Tony Picardi: treason (February 2019)

This report was written by a particularly astute carpenter ant named Cindi camponotus. I let...

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Brandon Daily: Free Dance (February 2019)

Southern Legitimacy Statement: The South is a place where past meets present, where ghosts of...

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Tom Sheehan: The Last of the Roses (February 2019)

My Southern Legitimacy Statement is that my work has appeared here before, and I have...

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Juan David Cruz Duarte : Superstitious (February 2019)

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Bogotá, Colombia. I have been living in South...

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Andy Betz: How Many Dead People Does It Take to Drive in the HOV Lane?...

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised in Missouri and now live (very, very)...

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Steven Levi : The Buxton Bootlegger and The Shad Man : Fiction : March 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am a Buxton landowner living in the frozen north. My wife...

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Roberta Beary: Love Me Tender Coming Right Up : Fiction : March 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Ever since my mother died in North Carolina, I’ve felt an affinity...

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John Conaway: Palace of God : Fiction : March 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Heck, eighteen years in Charleston, eighteen more in Charlotte. If I’m not...

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Rodney Barfield : Drunk Underwood :: fiction :: March 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was raised in a mill village in North Carolina. My parents...

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Flash Fiction Writing Contest

You’ve got from now to April 20th to send me 750 words or less. Complete...

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John M. Daniel : A Dog Wants Simple Things :

Here’s my Southern Legitimacy Statement: At my school you could use ACC Tournament Friday as...

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Elizabeth Bruce : The Bell : fiction : April 2019

Here’s my Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born on the Gulf Coast of Texas, I grew up...

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Bruce McDougall : Night Time in Newfoundland : fiction : April 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: If you hold your fingers over the eyes of your imagination and...

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Guinotte Wise : Chicago Bankroll and two more : Flash Fiction : April 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I said comic books when I moved to Tensas Parish, Louisiana as...

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David VanDevelder : Althea Reigns in Shangry Lah : Long Read Fiction : April...

Southern Legitimacy Statement: We were a prototypical southern nuclear family. My Papaw came up in...

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Flash Fiction Competition Winner and Honorable Mentions

Wow! What an amazing bunch of talent we have here in Dead Mule Territory. Had...

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Mike Sutton: Spadra: Fiction: May 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement : I grew up running barefoot through the Ouachita and Ozark Mountains...

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Joey Holland: Pharmacopoeia : flash fiction : May 2019

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My family never hid our crazy folks; they generally sat on the...

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