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The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
No good Southern writing is complete without a dead mule. Established 1996. New issues on the 15th of every month.
The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
No good Southern writing is complete without a dead mule. Established 1996. New issues on the 15th of every month.
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Tom Wade :: Louetta ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in Missouri and moved...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Joan Baker :: I Can Still Hear the Music ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: The story I am submitting, I Can...
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Flash Fiction

Gary Carter :: Things of the Heart ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Having been raised up in the South...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Dwight Watson :: Tough in the Right Places ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: After thirty-six years of teaching in the...
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Fiction

David Swan :: An Uncloudy Day ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Though I grew up in Michigan, my...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Bill Smith :: Scarred for Life ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’m a sixth-generation southerner born and raised...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Cynthia Gilmore :: Hurricane Season ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Cindy moved south kicking and screaming in...
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Flash Fiction

Zoé Mahfouz :: Look After Your Mate ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am in the South of Somewhere...
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Fiction

James Roderick Burns :: Don’t Mention the Mole Men ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Married to a woman from Ocilla, GA...
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Fiction

Phillip T Kehoe :: Bucktown Mona Lisa ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Fifty years within fifty miles of Cafe...
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Fiction

Jim Rogers :: Dirt Wars ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My Big Ditch  Daddy finally made enough...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Gael Blake :: A True Short Tale and Certainly Not Tall ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am a true blue Southern Belle....
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Sarah Trautwein :: That Stupid Blue Camel with the Wrinkled Knees ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in wildly wonderful state...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Marina Yingling :: Nineteen ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in Virginia! I’m now...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Kimberly Shaw :: Booch ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: As far south of Kansas you can...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Thomas Chester :: Cars, My Old Man, and Life ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Although I fled Oklahoma in my 20s,...
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Flash Fiction

Ed Supranowicz :: A Modern Fairy Tale ::

Southern legitimacy statement: I have a deep need for manners...
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The River of Strange

Irwin Steffy. The Man. The Moment.

Lititz, Pennsylvania. Irwin R. Steffy having his car gone over...
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Fiction

Gary Bolick :: God Has a Bent Mower Blade ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Winston-Salem, NC. Dad...
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