Scott Beard :: Rising Fog ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I wish all these people from California would stop moving here. Rising Fog Born in a back alley on a Thursday, my nativity predisposed me to drinking; but I can’t say it had anything to do with...
Edward Burke :: Texas Experiment in Mortuary Science ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’ve been south of south for so long I can’t even remember the last time I saw Ursas Major or Minor, I guess they’re still up there somewhere. The quantum perturbations at whatever latitude I’m in are...
Alissa C. Miles :: Bone Edge ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in South Carolina wishing for snow in the winters and shoving my toes in the pluff mud on the banks of marshes during the summer. My family ties stretch across this corn-flake-shaped state, from...
Cecil Geary :: The Dead Mule ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in Kentucky, Southern Indiana and Southern California. My family is from Grayson County, Kentucky which is the setting for most of my stories. The Dead Mule Charlie Drucker stood at the edge of the...
Eddie Black :: Tailgates and Tomatoes ::
I come from a place where you save leftover fat in a coffee can for biscuits or eggs or a gravy base. I come from a place where men go from one mother to another right after high-school and where...
C. C. Evans :: Gladys’s Girls ::
C. C. Evans is a Southern-based educator who grew up in Florida. Her fiction, non-fiction, and poetry have been published in Cathexis Northwest Press, Visit Florida, Hii Magazine, and Choeofpleirn Press, amongst others. She’s a fan of the comma splice....
Jim R. Rogers :: Imprint ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: “Here lately, it appears that nobody cares much about anything. Leastwise it’s the way I see it.When was the last time you heard a youngan say thank you, or please, or here let me do that foryou?...
Brent Cronin :: Anyone but Annie ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I currently live in West Virginia, which is in that grey area between the Mid-Atlantic and the South, so I believe I qualify to submit to this journal. Anyone but Annie Chester’s suit was too tight, especially...
Fox Good :: He Keeps the Faith ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Raised in Maryland, 10 miles from the Mason Dixon. Summered and Wintered (and more often than not Sprung and Fell) in West Virginia, where nouns are verbs and verbs are for the doin’. Drinking Costa Rican coffee,...
John Jacobson :: 1979 ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I live in the western Catskill Mountains, at the northern edge of Appalachia, south of the Adirondacks, most of New England and of course Canada. We’re south of a lot here. Anyway, I try to write about...
John Haymaker :: Reprise of a Vanishing Act ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: You might say I was halfway to Dixie the day I was born on account of the Kansas twang I picked up from my parents, who raised me in Chicago shortly after my birth. The twang was...
James Ryer :: An Italian Life Journey ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I have lived almost exclusively in the South, but that has never fully defined me. I find that definition in how I think about and how I respond to my orange blossom scented environment. For the last...
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...
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