Celebrate the Fourth of July, 1933 with a Story from Pete Peterson
Southernicity Statement I live in Southern California but was reared in the Missouri Ozarks and attended schools where more hogs and dogs were under the school house than text books inside. I know that...
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Southern Legitimacy Statement: An “Okie from Muskogee” I am one of very few women who have been crowned both Miss Azalea Festival and Miss Indian Summer. I was convinced for years that Colonel Sanders...
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 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 ArticleMark Vogel: Poetry: Three Powerful Poems
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Mark Vogel has lived in the back of a Blue Ridge holler for the past twenty two years with ducks, cats, dogs, horses, and his family. He teaches English at Appalachian...
View ArticleBob War by Don Stewart
Southern Legitimacy Statement: The colonel passed my fancy computer-generated laser-target print-out across the table to his colleague, a retired Marine and veteran of three wars, who glanced over at...
View ArticleLet The Honey Soak Through by Connie Bull Stillinger
Southern Legitimacy Statement: There is at least one dead mule in my family’s history. My uncles “accidentally” killed the family plow mule with a hammer blow between his eyes, then tried to bury him...
View ArticleRiver Haven by Pepper Smith
For my southern legitimacy statement, I'd say, my name is Pepper, which has caused me much grief living in the DC area, but made a lot of sense in my home of Mississippi, where I was born and grew up....
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 ArticleEula Shook, a love story by Grant Jerkins
Southern Legitimacy Statement: The thing about The South is that it isn’t southern anymore.
View ArticleDonna J. Dotson “Gus”
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I have spent my entire life at the foot of one hill or another in North Carolina. When I was a little girl, I spent my summers with my grandma and pawpaw. They were...
View ArticleMark Pegram “Moonshine in Piedmont North Carolina”
Some Lovely Creative Non-Fiction. Enjoy … Moonshine Piedmont North Carolina Intro Nick Pegram, Nicholas Talley Pegram, my grandfather was born in the Piedmont of North Carolina 1864 during the height...
View ArticleChristopher Rowe: High Water
“That was a nice cast, boy, your daddy’s been teaching you something right down there in Florida.” “Now, don’t start in again, Hiram. The child wasn’t the one decided to pick up and move off. We’re...
View ArticleTravis Turner : Chimney Sweeps
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Son of Alabama's Black Belt. English/Literature/Writing Instructor. Lover of black cats, good bourbon & better storytelling.
View ArticleEllen Perry : I Wonder
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Mom from Colbert, Georgia, where the Confederate monument has yet to be defaced. Dad from Johnson City, Tennessee. Born in Weaverville, North Carolina, where I still live...
View ArticleNorvin Dickerson : Six Poems on Place
SOUTHERN LEGITIMACY STATEMENT I was conceived on a houseboat on the Ashley River in Charleston, South Carolina and was born in Monroe, North Carolina first year of the Baby Boomers. I got my...
View ArticleThree Poems by Thomas Alan Holmes
Where I’m From (My Southern Legitimacy Statement) after George Ella Lyons I am from a back porch, from Coca-Cola and accidental parallel fingertip slits from my curiosity of discovering our first air...
View Article“Holman’s House” by Darrell Grayson
“Holman’s House” by Darrell Grayson This chapbook will always be available on the Dead Mule. It is not archived. It is published in memory of Mr. Grayson who was executed by the state of Alabama on...
View ArticleBill Prince: The Boy, The Buck Rabbit and the Beagles
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am an eighth generation direct descendant of a 1740 immigrant who came to America as an indentured servant to the Trustees of the colony of Georgia. I was born in...
View ArticleDanny Says–a vignette by AS Coomer
I'm a native Kentuckian currently riding out a purgatorial existence in the arctic Midwestern abyss. I catch glimpses of the bluegrass sometimes, when the sun is exceptionally blinding and making a...
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