Alex Leigh Jones : The Life and Death of an Adventure : August 2019
Southern Literacy Statement: I was born in Ohio, but I got to Texas as fast as I could. Texas is like the rest of the South, but better. Now I know that people who say Texans talk about Texas too much...
View ArticleTom Sheehan : Red High Heels at the River : August 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I have published in North Carolina, baby-sat three grandchildren there, and trained with the EKSU’s 278th Infantry Regiment (activated for the Korean conflict) at Fort...
View ArticlePeter Stavros : The Time Chubz the Cat Went Missing : Fiction : September 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Although a Northerner by birth (and due to no fault of my own), I was raised in Eastern Kentucky amongst the hills and hollers, and attended college in North Carolina,...
View ArticleLucinda Trew: Women Who Lunch : Flash Fiction : September 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Lucinda Trew lives and writes in Charlotte, N.C. She studied journalism and English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill… Women Who Lunch I was once hit by...
View ArticleMark A Nobles : Wilbur Closes the Wallace : Fiction : September 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I live in Fort Worth but hope to die in the desert. I love my two dogs, two daughters, and Texas, but not necessarily in that order. Mark A. Nobles is a sixth generation...
View ArticleMarlene DeVere : who ya gonna call : flash fiction : September 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: It’s true I was born and raised in Chicago, but after my parents died, I found evidence that I was conceived in Tucson, Arizona. I ended up living in Tucson quite by...
View ArticleMarlene DeVere: Pinning for Love : Flash Fiction : October 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: It’s true I was born and raised in Chicago, but after my parents died, I found evidence that I was conceived in Tucson, Arizona. I ended up living in Tucson quite by...
View ArticleRodney Barfield : Granny’s Rapture : Fiction : October 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: An image of a worn Meerschaum clinched tightly between my father’s tobacco-stained teeth as he loosed an iron horseshoe toward a wooden stob in the ground. Granny’s...
View ArticleJames Ryer: Girl On The Bridge : Fiction : November 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised in the segregated South. Separate water fountains, restrooms, seating in the movie theater, and schools. My high school didn’t desegregate until two...
View ArticleAndrea Rinard : Bouquets : Fiction : November 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’m tired of apologizing for being a native Floridian. I’ve never ridden an alligator or cooked meth, and “Florida Man” headlines freak me out too. Some of us down here...
View ArticleChristina Johanningmeier : Blondie : Fiction : November 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up watching the BC Powder commercials with the woman clutching her temple and saying: “That sure ain’t helping my headache.” I learned at an early age that one of...
View ArticleDiana Cejas : The Crunchy Kind : Flash Fiction : November 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up on a tobacco farm in Rougemont, North Carolina. As soon as I turned eighteen I did what everybody else who gets tired of the work and the dirt and the tobacco...
View ArticleSteve Meador: Calls From The Southern Forest : Fiction : November 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I still say y’all, ain’t and I reckon. I live near Tampa and I would say that is nearly southern as one can get, although I don’t live near a swamp. Calls From the...
View ArticleE. G. Fate : Car Thief’s Redemption : Flash Fiction : December 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: E. G. Fate is the penname of an author, who currently resides in the state of South Carolina in the basement of their family’s house. While having no works published as...
View ArticleMatt Naylor : The Box : Flash Fiction : December 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born in Tennessee, raised in Kentucky, live in North Carolina. I’ve bumped my head in tens of caves where Daniel Boone was rumored to have slept, and each time I’ve...
View ArticleAndy Spain : Off Me, I Said Get : Flash Fiction : December 2019
Born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. Only wore shoes if I was going to church or school. Relocated to North Carolina where I now enjoy Bojangles’ Famous Chicken ‘n Biscuits. Off Me, I Said Get...
View ArticleAndrew Hamilton : Holy Water : Flash Fiction : December 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: For years I lived off barbecue ribs in Memphis, Tennessee, then broke up with my ex and moved to California, which turned out to be a big mistake, because people out west...
View ArticleTom Sheehan : Dared Dream : Flash Fiction : December 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I have been in your magazine, have babysat grandchildren in NC, and trained for the Korean engagement with ETSU’s 278th Infantry. Dared Dream I didn’t want to wake you...
View ArticleStephanie Duncan : Empathy : January 2020
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am from southeastern Kentucky, the land that is not quite South but nowhere near North, but I moved to Tennessee in 2010. I live in a place of fierce loyalty, small...
View ArticleAdrienne Burris: Fiction : February 2020
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Adrienne Burris grew up in the purple shag-carpeted room her mother grew up in, the third bedroom of a small brick ranch sandwiched between a cow pasture and a tobacco...
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