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.

Con Chapman :: My Right Arm ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was raised in Sedalia, Missouri, site of a “skirmish” between Yankee and Rebel forces during the Civil War; while the town had southern sympathizers, I found a Union army cavalry handbook in a stove in the...

Flash Fiction

Becky Meadows :: Boodoo vs. The Pantyhose ::

Shut hern Legitimacy Statement:I am a farm girl who still reaches for her gum boots to go feed the birds. I grew up in the arms of a grandmother who worked 40 hours a week for 36 years in a...

Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

David VanDevelder :: Her Heroic Final Role in the Fading Persona of So and So ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My Papaw came up in the Great Smokey Mountains, near Farner, Tennessee and Cherokee, North Carolina. When he was nine, he lost track of the time one summer evening, squirrel hunting up on the mountain, and he...

Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Sarah Das Gupta :: A Green and Pleasant Land ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: In the UK I’m known as a ‘posh’ Southerner because I live south of Watford. My chidhood was spent in the south of England in a village at the highest point of the North Downs- which with...

Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Michele Hromada :: River Street ::

I lived most of my life in NY, but for the past year I’ve resided in Savannah, GA. Relocating here had been an adjustment until I discovered the quirky pleasure of walking along the Savannah River with my dog, Noah....

Flash Fiction

Lou Storey :: The Fit Test ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: An old friend from college living up in Maine visited my home here in Savannah, Georgia. “Why don’t they clean all the moss off these old trees?” she asked. “Cause,’ I explained, “unlike your snow, our moss...

Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Deborah Robinson :: Newly Redecorated Villa ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement:As the annual rush to Florida begins each year, there are many issues facing fun-loving retirees. Whether they own a beautiful home, rent a condominium, or camp for the winter, heading South can be a risky proposition. Leaving...

Fiction

Con Chapman :: My Right Arm ::

Becky Meadows :: Boodoo vs. The Pantyhose ::

David VanDevelder :: Her Heroic Final Role in the Fading Persona of So and So ::

Sarah Das Gupta :: A Green and Pleasant Land ::

Michele Hromada :: River Street ::

Lou Storey :: The Fit Test ::

Deborah Robinson :: Newly Redecorated Villa ::

Scott Beard :: Rising Fog ::

Katheryn Krotzer Laborde :: Off Balance ::

Kevin Brown :: Three Poems ::

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