Ashley Fields “Legacy” [flash fiction]
SLS: I never thought I was very southern until my neighbor from California came over early one morning. We were going through a "lifestyle change," and she had arrived to drag me out for an early...
View ArticleHeather Adams “Warmer Over Here” [flash fiction]
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Honey, my southern roots go way back - at least four generations of my family have been born and raised in western North Carolina.
View ArticleThom Bassett “Keep It In There” [flash fiction]
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I confuse the nice old ladies at my Rhode Island supermarket by asking for my groceries to put in a paper *sack instead of a bag. I'm an atheist Jew who thinks "Leaning...
View ArticleHope Denney “Waiting for the Undertaker” [flash fiction]
Southern Legitimacy Statement: When you’re a half Jewish girl from Tennessee with a heavy Appalachian accent, people really don’t know how to take you.
View ArticlePossum Holler Morning by William Matthew McCarter
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Them folks up there in St. Louis prolly think that Johnny Cash is a pay toilet but we know how the cows eat the cabbage down here in Ironton.
View ArticleMy Father The Millionaire by Travis Turner
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Son of the Blackbelt. Lover of good bourbon & better storytelling.
View ArticleBlackout by Alan Watson
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Alan Watkins was born, raised, and still lives in the Raleigh, NC area. Generally, his writings end up as short films, but recently he has decided to delve into the...
View ArticleThe Wink That Saved Me by Cindy Shearer
Southern Legitimacy Statement: My family cookbook has recipes for fried chicken, fried venison and fried squirrel. (As to the latter entrée, submitted by my Uncle Toodler, he notes that Aunt Fay “says...
View ArticleThe Subway Bride by Meg Stivison
SLS: Meg Stivison did indeed move from Brooklyn to North Carolina when her handsome Southern boyfriend proposed, but as far as she knows, he is not actually a changeling.
View ArticleTranscript of Audio: Miss Jewell Eppinette by Nonnie Augustine
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I now live in Panama City Beach, Florida and have been living here since 2005. There was also a six year spell here in the 80’s. I was born in NYC, grew up in New Jersey...
View Article“Christmas I-55″ by John Calvin Hughes
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’m John Calvin Hughes, son of a son of a preacher chased out of Mississippi for plucking the flock. I’m a southern (if I spell it southren you’ll get it, right?) boy who...
View Article“Searching for Amy Spain” by Merry Speece [2007 revisited]
From the summer of 1989 to the summer of 2001 I lived in South Carolina. Before moving there I had not heard of the Gullah language and many other things. For the first eight years that I lived there,...
View Article“Life Story” by Lauren “Elyse” Phillips (58 word micro-fiction) 2007
As for Southern Legitimacy: I couldn't possibly be more Southern. Paw-Paw is a cotton farmer, Aunt Jean's favorite phrase is "for cryin' in the cow butter!", and the little old ladies in the grocery...
View ArticleCelia McClinton “About Dr. Smilnik” [2007 revisited]
Celia is southern. She knows it, we know it... and Mule readers of our previous 10 years of literary excellence know she's southern.
View ArticleJohn McCaffrey “Clamming in January” [2007 revisited]
As for my southern legitimacy: sweet tea. Once, when visiting family in Mocksville, North Carolina, I drank so much during the week that I had something akin to the sugar DT's when I got back north....
View ArticleC. L. Bledsoe “Stray” [2007 revisited]
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up on a catfish and rice farm in eastern Arkansas. I must admit, I will take biscuits and gravy over grits any day, though.
View ArticleAthena Sasso: Throw Down
Southern Legitimacy Statement: These are names of my relatives: Clem, Lettie, Garlin, Annabelle, Elmer, Cayce, Velma, LV, and Baby Doll. Dear Mule readers take note: every Spring needs a baseball story...
View ArticleCock-a-Doodle-Doo by L. E. Bunn
Southern Legitimacy Statement: My Daddy, who was born and raised in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, taught me the finger lickin’ pleasures of Sunday breakfast of biscuits and gravy, and,...
View ArticleEula Shook, a love story by Grant Jerkins
Southern Legitimacy Statement: The thing about The South is that it isn’t southern anymore.
View Article“My Disqualification” by Prosenjit Dey Chaudhury
With respect to a Southern Legitimacy Statement, I would like to state that although I have never been in the American South, I have deep admiration for the determined and pioneering individuality that...
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