J Eddie Edwards :: Here ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am certified in using picket fence, rubber flooring, and duct tape to seal a bedroom for a Florida CAT4 hurricane before running inside to drink. My blood is mostly orange juice, BBW sauce, and a form...
Albert Dixon :: Storms of My Youth ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in the South, I live in the South: Athens, Georgia. I’ve tried to leave, a few times, but I always come back. Nowhere else feels like home. Storms of My Youth There was a...
Harlan Yarbrough :: Git Along Home ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: When I lived in the South (which began when I was about three months old), I didn’t fit in; I was different. When I later attended a university in and therefore necessarily lived in Yankee country, I...
Marsha Owens :: Boarded Up ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born in Richmond, VA, I’ve made it my forever home. My paternal grandpa was a waterman on the Chesapeake Bay, and to this day, I’m a seafood snob. I married an ex-Amishman to whom all things Southern...
Thomas Oar :: The Snake : Genesis : Virginia Tiger Moth ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’ve spent most of my life halfway between the concrete North and green South of Virginia: wandering about the woods, swimming in dark lakes, catfishing, and drinking whiskey over card tables to Son House and Lightnin’ Hopkins....
Ramces Ha :: Bronco Blitz Monsoon ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born in Tyler, TX, moved to Florida, now back in Texas, just outside of Fort Worth, aka Cowtown — doesn’t get much more southern than The World Famous Fort Worth Stockyards. No matter where I go, my...
H. L. Liptak :: The Flabbyman ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Growing up in South Carolina we whispered ghost stories about the Gray Man, plateyes, or the Lovely Lady when we snuck past crooked iron gates into grave yards covered with kudzu and ancient oaks dripping with Spanish...
Mike Wilson :: Choice ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in Lexington, Kentucky. My father grew up in Strawberry Holler, Wayne County, Kentucky. My mother’s father was a coal miner in Eastern Kentucky. Neither of them were much on church, but going was part...
Harry James :: The Dog Fell Out of the Truck ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born south of the Ohio River in a border state that declared itself neither North, nor South in that most uncivil of civil wars. In doing so, it proceeded to wander between both beliefs and...
Henry Stevens :: The Definition ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in the Halifax County, Virginia and other than two years I spent doing undergraduate in China, I never lived anywhere else but the South. I finished my undergraduate at Duke in North Carolina, and...
Chris Epenshade :: Roadkill ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement, I am proud to have had seven pieces published by the Dead Mule School. I was raised in North Carolina, and I went to college and grad school in Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida. When I lived...
Tracie Adams :: I Guess We’ll Never Know ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: When I let my dogs out in the morning, I’m rewarded with a picturesque view of rolling hills, pastures dotted with horses and a tiny mule. The goats bleat at me incessantly and I don’t mind. On...
Darcy Lee :: Peach and Proud ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in South Georgia, where our “snow” grows from the ground, and the only thing sweeter than the tea is the hospitality of folks. Only two words needed to sum up my first eighteen years...
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