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View ArticleDon Cooper: Amos
First published in 2000, we found this in the Mule archives and we'd like to put it up -- front and center -- once again.
View ArticleMarsha Nicholson: Snapshots *originally published 2000
Marsha Nicholson, a middle manager by day, freelance writer by night, is most consistently occupied with exploring where she fits into her Appalachian heritage, and vice versa.
View ArticleLynn Veach Sadler: Bell, Pol, and “Miss Bird”
Fresh from 2000 archival goodness. Published again as we peruse our backfiles... enjoy.
View ArticleThomas Scott McKenzie: Spook In the Night
Another great tale straight from the 2000 archives.
View ArticleTammy Wilson: Running on Empty
from the 2000 archives. Read it again for the first time.
View ArticleTim Peeler: The Great Race
Many of our Mule readers know Tim Peeler the poet, but did you know that Tim was one of the first fiction writers ever published on the Mule? Yup.
View ArticleBob Thomas: Duel In the Sun
Another piece of very short fiction from yesteryear, the 1998? 1999? archives. From the notes: "Bob Thomas is the owner of Kristi's Gallery in Swansboro, N.C. After 13 years as an Executive Recruiter...
View ArticleThomas Scott McKenzie: Barges
An exceptional story by one of our favorite writers... so happy to have finally found this again.
View ArticleTed Harrison “Brotherly Love”
Southern Legitimacy Statement: When you are born of Scot-Irish and Welsh stock in Piedmont North Carolina you start with a perceived southern legitimacy, but perhaps when you grow older you want to...
View ArticleApril Winters “Radio Waves”
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Grammy used to make the best rhubarb pie. Her meals were the type where every inch of the long table was covered with food: fried chicken, mashed potatoes,...
View ArticleSusan Miller “Last Job” flash fiction
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born many years ago in the 'Who'sthare' state, this writer seeks to expand and share stories with anyone who enjoys a midwestern flavor. I enjoy trying flash, shorts, and...
View ArticleJessica Wimmer “Sweet Baby Lamb”
SLS: It was probably around age seven in the middle of a winter night that I realized how southern I was while dangling my legs in Granny's outhouse.
View ArticleMolly Felder “Custody” flash fiction
Southern Legitimacy Statement: The family’s all tore up: PawPaw and Mimi because Pepe was such a teeniny dog and just flattened under the wheel of that teenager’s Camaro—never stood a chance!—and me...
View ArticleAlways Clap for the Band by Clint Tyra
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Alabama, grew up in Georgia, went to school in Mississippi, lived in Nashville and do my fishing in South Carolina. I've spent a lot of time on the grounds...
View ArticleBrigette Steel:
SLS: A native of the Pacific Northwest, I lived in north Florida for eighteen months as a teenager. I was introduced to cornbread dressing, boiled peanuts, and beaches you can actually swim in.
View ArticleRena McClure Taylor “Onions Can Make You Cry”
Southern Legitimacy Statement: We only eat Vidalia onions.
View ArticleZacc Dukowitz “Ernesto and the Mule”
Southern Legitimacy Statement* I have shot containers of propane with my grandfather's 12 gauge and yodeled with delight at the plume of flame that erupted into the night like a spume of blood from the...
View Article“Our Nativity – 1970″ by Dawn Wilson
Southern Legitimacy Statement: My sister used to experiment on me. At the age of twelve, she taught me how to do a Southern accent--and I got stuck. I couldn't get rid of it. The phone rang, back in...
View Article“Not Nihilistic” by Pete Armetta
SOUTHERN STATEMENT I'm a Native New Yorker who's now Southern. When I came here I didn't think it'd get a hold on me, but it did. Living in Charlottesville, VA via too many other places to count, it's...
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