Avee Chaudhuri : The King Under the Mountain (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I spent some time in Lake Charles, Louisiana. I have made tasso from scratch, or at least been heavily involved in the process, even once arbitrating a disagreement as to whether or not our curing salt ought...
Connie Rosser Riddle: Pull Those Puppies Up! (memoir)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Growing up in the South, I developed a love for stories. Some of these included the travel accounts of my cousins in the military, and the gossip of girls as we worked alongside the women ‘barning tobacco’...
Karan Freimark: Requiem for a Rat (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: The first twenty-one years of my life were spent cradled by the hills of eastern Kentucky. Now, after spending about two thirds of the intervening years somewhere in the south, I have returned to my old homeland....
Kelley Timmons: Twenty (memoir)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: My husband, a fellow aspiring writer, and I married in May and live a quit life in a single-wide in the woods. I was born and raised in a small Arkansas community, without a Dollar General or Sonic...
William Crawford: Down Wind With Death: St. George, Utah (memoir)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: William C. Crawford is a writer and photographer based in Winston-Salem, NC. He has lived in North Carolina since 1962. He was a combat photojournalist in Vietnam. That led him into social work where he often became a...
Betty Moffett: Dan (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in North Carolina–in the western red clay hills, the flat tobacco county in the middle of the state, and the sandy beaches of Nags Head. Dan Uncle Charles ran a small dairy farm on the...
Gracjan Kraszewski: The Narrow Path to Perfection (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am an adopted Southerner who lived in Mississippi for five years and have a son born in Mississippi. The attached story is all about the long-standing tradition of exporting all that is best in the South–here 100mph+...
Alyson Wild: Her and the Hims
Southern Legitimacy Statement: As a child, I lived for the summers spent at my Grandfathers’ in South Carolina. Yeah, we were tourists in Myrtle Beach, but something salty just gets in your blood August after August, coated in sunscreen and...
March is in like a lion on the Mule
Some of the best of the best — available this month on the Mule. Welcome to our Dead Mule. We hope you find hours of enjoyable reading, a few works at at time, within these pages. Whether you’re on your...
Caitlin Butler: PawPaw (memoir)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised in Georgia, where I was baptized by a Brother Buddy about the same age as I fell in love with Billy Ray Cyrus. I still know the words to every song in...
Zachary Desormeaux Tanner: The Madonna and Child (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: On Mom’s side, I come from LeBoeufs, Thibodauxs, and Chauvins. Dad is a second-generation Tanner, after my great-grandfather, an adulterous Dixieland musician who abandoned his wife and children in Pennsylvania to start my family in Acadiana. They say...
Holli Harms: The Russians
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in Columbia South Carolina where I spent my summers at Lake Wateree swimming with the Cottonmouths. I attended the College of Charleston in Charleston, South Carolina where I would swim the beaches of Sullivan’s Island...
Jay Edge: Throwing a baseball as a conversation with my boy. (memoir)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: My name is Jay Edge and I’ve been drawing & writing ever since I remember. The one thing I remember doing before drawing and telling stories was roaming the woods behind my grandparent’s home. I’d sew a sheath...
Luisa Kay Reyes: Opportunities (Memoir)
My Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. The home of the mighty Crimson Tide of football lore. My mother made sure I was born in the South and growing up my grandmother would call me her little...
Holli Harms: I Grew Up (Essay)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was raised in South Carolina. I make the best slow cook grits with Daufuskie Shrimp and I know football to be the best game ever created by man. I Grew Up I grew up in South Carolina...
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