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	<description>Southern Literature -- fiction, poetry, essays and photos since 1996</description>
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		<title>&#8220;Never Trust The Weatherman&#8221; by Shane Hinton</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:08:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Val MacEwan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Southern Legitimacy Statement:

My family has been farming in the South for fifty years; longer if you count cotton. I don't count cotton. ]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Damn Tourists&#8221; by John Baradell, Jr.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 16:00:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Val MacEwan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SLS: Most of my family was born and raised in the Deep South, and remains there (Mississippi, Alabama, and East Texas). Things get a bit confused by some in those areas when they find out that I grew up in the Upper South of Tidewater, Virginia. When they hear my soft accent or that I prefer to be asked first before my tea is sweetened, I am sometimes accused of being a Yankee (not that there's anything wrong with that). Not so with my family, though--I'm still Southern through and through--and proud of it. I'm so Southern that I can go into great detail about my usual startch staple of grits and its historical importance to the South's survival. True, but i eat them so often (always stone ground--never instant) because they're soooo good.
Plus, I know the difference between a chicken house and a hen house, and have met both chicken catchers and chicken sexers.]]></description>
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		<title>Paranoia by Joseph Finder, movie to be released Aug 16th</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Val MacEwan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aug relase of Paranoia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joseph Finder's Paranoia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paranoia Movie]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[About mid-way through this Mule&#8217;s life, I worked for Popmatters.com as the Books Editor. We had around 70 critics in my department and back in that day, digital previews were not available. I had to arrange for books to be sent to the critic direct from the publisher. It was an interesting job. I still [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Everyone Wears A Nametag &#8211; Valerie MacEwan</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:58:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Val MacEwan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Southern Legitimacy Statement:
My yard dogs are polite and only bark when strangers walking by neglect them and forget to speak to them. The voices of people I've never met will waft up to the second story windows of my home, "Hello there, everything okay today? How ya' doing? Sweet pups. Nice pups ... "]]></description>
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		<title>Jessica Wimmer &#8211; If I Let My Babies Be Born</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:31:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Val MacEwan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Southern Legitimacy Statement: 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.]]></description>
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		<title>Diane Hoover Bechtler &#8211; Illiteracy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Val MacEwan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Southern legitimacy statement
my grandmother made fat back sandwiches at lunch for all the grandchildren and our cholesterol is just fine.
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		<title>Kevin Winter &#8211; What The Storm Did</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 18:53:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Val MacEwan</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Kevin Winter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Southern Legitimacy Statement: A snapshot of the South. A line of watermelons laid out in the grass. The road, just glorified gravel. My wife pointing through the windshield at the hand-painted cardboard leaning against the fence post. A smile playing across her face in the shifting sunshine. An empty gumdrop jar gleaming beside the cardboard sign. "Take a melon"  on one line, "Leave a dollar" on the next.
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		<title>Hannah Thurman &#8211; Snakes in the Ceiling</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:44:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Val MacEwan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Southern Legitimacy Statement: When she was 8, Hannah attended a weeklong Kay Yow Lady Wolfpack basketball camp at NC State University, where dribbling was optional but prayer mandatory. ]]></description>
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		<title>Frances Badgett &#8211; Wishbone Stick</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:39:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Val MacEwan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Felix Grundy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Frances Badgett]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in Lexington, Virginia steeped in summer afternoon storytelling that winds its way late into the night. I walk 74 percent slower than most people I know here in Washington State. I'm pretty sure I'm the only person who orders grits at the diner here in town. I have that way we have that makes us really tiresome at the grocery store in places like Seattle and New York. I'm descended from Felix Grundy. I'll let you Google him.
*ValNote: I google'd him. ]]></description>
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		<title>April Writer Spotlight &#8211; Robert Klein Engler and a bit more&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.deadmule.com/blog/april-writer-spotlight-robert-klein-engler/</link>
		<comments>http://www.deadmule.com/blog/april-writer-spotlight-robert-klein-engler/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Val MacEwan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month&#8217;s poetry rises above the pocosin and flies over our heads toward the astral plain. Having North Carolina&#8217;s poet laureate, Joseph Bathanti, join us to create an issue unparalleled in lyrical superiority seemed to compliment our seventeen year online history with sufficient grace but then we began to review our fiction and realized the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robert Klein Engler &#8212; The Tourist</title>
		<link>http://www.deadmule.com/fiction/robert-klein-engler-the-tourist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Val MacEwan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Southern Legitimacy Statement:

I have passed a lot of time living in New Orleans and traveling from there to Des Plaines, Illinois and back to NOLA. I take comfort in living by a river. I know what “lagniappe” means, and I plan on being buried above ground.]]></description>
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		<title>Rachel Kapitan &#8212; the notion &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.deadmule.com/fiction/rachel-kapitan-the-notion/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Apr 2013 16:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Val MacEwan</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Fiction]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I moved to Virginia at age seven and was baptized by vernacular when on my first day at the new school my teacher told me to do something "right quick." The whole world sounded different. Decades later, I can make fried green tomatoes without a recipe, and (not so) secretly enjoy going to the Bass Pro Shop.
]]></description>
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		<title>In Loving Memory</title>
		<link>http://www.deadmule.com/blog/in-loving-memory-of-elsie-r-jones-may-13-1921-march-12-2013/</link>
		<comments>http://www.deadmule.com/blog/in-loving-memory-of-elsie-r-jones-may-13-1921-march-12-2013/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:02:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PoetEditor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[* * The 2013 April (Poetry Month) Issue of the Dead Mule is dedicated to the memory of Elsie R. Jones  May 13, 1921 – March 12, 2013 Beloved Mother of Poetry Editor Helen Losse. * Elsie Rosa Jones, born in Swindon, Wiltshire, England, was the youngest of eight children in the Jefferies family.  Her [...]]]></description>
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