Mary Siroky : Strike: fiction : May 2019
I am a happy Southern transplant and have lived in the beautiful state of Tennessee...
View ArticleVirginia Lee : Rusty Roses : Flash Fiction : May 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: If you don’t believe I’m legitimately Southern by now, Val, you ain’t...
View ArticleW Goodwin : Solace : Flash Fiction : June 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement Along with Rosey Grier I was born in Tyler deep in the...
View ArticleJ B Hogan : John Cassaday : Flash Fiction : June 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in Fayetteville, Arkansas home of the University of Arkansas...
View ArticleMichael Worthington : Devil Dogs : Flash Fiction : June 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am a Southerner born and raised on a tobacco farm in...
View ArticleDale Bailes : Yellow Dog and Rev. Walter : Fiction : June 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: We moved from West Virginia to South Carolina in 1952. The other...
View ArticleMegan Hoffman : Good Fences : fiction : June 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Having recently purchased an old farmhouse in rural Georgia allows for all...
View ArticleW Goodwin : Solace : Flash Fiction : June 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Along with Rosey Grier I was born in Tyler deep in the piney woods. Soon after that blessed event my mother rode the train to L.A. with her baby, but I returned to Texas...
View ArticleJ B Hogan : John Cassaday : Flash Fiction : June 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in Fayetteville, Arkansas home of the University of Arkansas Razorbacks and what was once one of the prettiest little Southern squares you might ever see. I was...
View ArticleMichael Worthington : Devil Dogs : Flash Fiction : June 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am a Southerner born and raised on a tobacco farm in Eastern North Carolina. The farm sits on a hill with a small creek running around its base. The slopes are wooded,...
View ArticleDale Bailes : Yellow Dog and Rev. Walter : Fiction : June 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: We moved from West Virginia to South Carolina in 1952. The other kids were surprised I wore shoes and I was equally surprised that they did not. My step-father moved us...
View ArticleMegan Hoffman : Good Fences : fiction : June 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Having recently purchased an old farmhouse in rural Georgia allows for all kinds of inspiration. Some wonderful and some horrific. This story is one such instance. Good...
View ArticleRandall Ivey: Mr. Aldon : Flash Fiction : July 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: “Southern since ’63 with no plans to go anywhere else!” Mr. Aldon When my father died, Aldon Keane attended his wake in soiled jeans and a stained tee-shirt, his face a...
View ArticleK C Tora: The Unexpected Gift : Flash Fiction : July 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am from the deep south of the Deep South, Hattiesburg, Mississippi. I lived in the Glory Land for 30 years until I decided to spread my Southerness abroad, and now I...
View ArticleAmy Smith Linton: A Bedtime Story: Fiction : July 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: My Grampa Navy was from Copper Hill, Tennessee, a place that still sounds like “Copper Heel, Tin ah see” when I type the words even though it’s been decades since he...
View ArticleTimothy Rodriguez: Deputy Carson Tinnin, summer of 1983 : Fiction : July 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I read that you folks originated in Pamlico. I used to work for the Sun Journal in New Bern. That was back in the days when daily newspapers were healthy. This story is...
View ArticleSteven Levi: How Nags Head Lost its Apostrophe : Fiction : July 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: This is a fake news story of how Nags Head, North Carolina lost its apostrophe. How Nags Head Lost its Apostrophe “Take it and be damned!” . . . Thomas J. Harkaway...
View ArticleSarah Everett : Supermarket Mayhem : Flash Fiction : August 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised in the frosty Minnesota where the winters are long and harsh, and the sight of green grass is a memory to be cherished. That doesn’t mean that I’m...
View ArticleJami Kimbrell : Milkweed : Flash : August 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am one of the 54 grandchildren of Mila and Esther and our enormous family’s Christmas Eve tradition was having bottle rocket wars against each other across a field of...
View ArticleSusan Robbins: Seventy-five MPH : flash : August 2019
Southern Legitmacy Statement: I live where I grew up, (across the road) from the 1820 farm house where I grew up, make biscuits from scratch (most of the time) and cook collard greens with fat back....
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