Andrew Miller: Stone Wall (micro-fiction) Sept 2018
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Michigan, lived in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Louisville, Kentucky, then spent 25 years in Vicksburg, Mississippi, and am now in Florida. I love the south: its people, weather, food, culture, and music. Stone Wall...
Elodie Pritchartt: A Hollow Space (Essay) Sept 2018
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born by the river — the Mississippi River, that is, and in its oldest city, Natchez. I and my family are Southern Gothic with the humidity to prove it. We’ve got suicides, antebellum homes, wealth, poverty,...
Maggie Hess: Hoodwinked Vignettes Part 2 (fiction) Sept 2018
Southern Legitimacy Statement: already proved myself Southern once on here. I forget how. Perhaps I showed a picture of my laundry hanging in the sunshine. 🙂 I am proud to live in Bristol Tennessee, just a notch south of Bristol, Virginia....
Brian Frazier: One Call (flash fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: The Fraziers come from the Kentucky Hills with a history of fixing cars and women’s hair. My grandpa, or Pa, distilled corn liquor and raised chickens. My Papa bought and sold cars from Fancy Farm all the...
New Mule on the Third
The September issue of the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature will be available by September 3, 2018. We might get it online sooner but we wanted yall to know we’re running behind this month. We’ll feature writing by: Victoria...
Eric Luthi: Waffles and Bacon (Fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Pliny was a Roman statesman who lived about the time of Christ. He was also a naturalist and that is how I came to be acquainted with his writings. “Robur the oak,” is one of his lines. It...
Brodie Lowe: Saddling (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: North Carolinian by birth. Raised on about ten acres of land where I roamed as a kid with a coonskin hat and Red Ryder BB gun, imagining myself to be Davy Crockett — all thanks to Fess Parker....
Nick Bertelson: It Says Something about a Man (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Though I live in Iowa, I know a lot of men around here who inexplicably speak in a southern accent. In fact, it was a man like that who inspired the story I am submitting to you. Moreover,...
Phillip Hall: Special Delivery (Short Fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I live in Virginia, along with most of my family. Special Delivery The year was 1995. The internet was still brand new, and cell phones hadn’t become mainstream. Social media had yet to make people antisocial, and fake...
Valerie MacEwan: Local Girls Finds Glory (short fiction)
I knew I’d best get in the mail before I got dressed for Mama’s funeral. Sand burrs and beggar lice spank my Converse hightops as I wade through knee-high ditch weeds to get to Mama’s mailbox. They’re clinging to my...
Cecil Geary: An Early Death (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was raised in central Kentucky, southern Indiana, and southern California. The events in this story happened a long time ago, at the end of a war that few remember. An Early Death Robert sat next to...
Joshua Caleb Wilson: A Man Named Karen (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: What on earth is a “Southern Legitimacy Statement” ??? I”m only typing in this box because it’s required. *ah ha! Someone didn’t pay attention to the directions, Ed. A Man Named Karen Karen’s name had never really bothered...
Deanna Benjamin: Pleiades (essay/memoir)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: In 2004, after living in Savannah, Georgia, for three years, a stray dog wandered into my front yard. I guided him to the back yard by his blue collar. My other half printed out “Found Dog” posters...
Jake W. Ford: A Fear All Her Own (flash fiction)
Southern Literacy Statement: I’m a fifth generation East Tennessean. I’ve cleared fields, dug post holes, chopped wood, and hauled hay. Had a beagle named Clyde that wadn’t worth a damn. As a teen I worked at the local AM country...
Daun Daemon: Good Customers (fiction)
SOUTHERN LEGITIMACY STATEMENT: Born and raised in Caldwell County, North Carolina, I have lived in the Old North State most of my life (except for two soggy years in Oregon – what was I thinking?). I am the youngest of...
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