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Pete Riebling :: Friendlessness ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: went to college in Atlanta… Friendlessness I went to college with a guy who was a little more intelligent than the professors he studied under. Not more intelligent. Savvier. He was able to figure out what they wanted...

Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Kelsey Erica Tran :: The True Meaning of Culture ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Growing up in Maryland, I got to experience summer bbqs and grilling burgers during the Fourth of July. Urban barbecue was a local chain that reminds me of my childhood. After taking swimming lessons during the summer,...

Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Ted Harrison :: This Year a Kayak ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am born and bred in the South and I have been fortunate to have some of my scribbling published in this journal. In the past I have written of my attempts to pick cotton on my...

Flash Fiction

Alan Brickman :: Said and Unsaid ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I have lived in New Orleans since 2009, after being raised in New York and spending most of my adult life in Massachusetts. Never having lived in New York City as an adult, I feel like a...

Poetry

J. O. Winberry :: Birdhouse ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am perhaps somewhat controversially Southern in that I was born and raised, and currently reside, in Southern California. We are the nail in the boot, the thorn in the side, the worm in the tequila of...

Flash Fiction

John Frame :: Night Out in Cow Town ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I spent a year living in Charlotte, North Carolina between 1996 and 1997, teaching at UNC-Charlotte and conducting historical research with the help of scholarships from Nations Bank and the St. Andrew’s Society of North Carolina. There...