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Cecile Dixon: Fiction: July 2022
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Cecile Dixon: Fiction: July 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was jerked up by my hair, (according to several preachers) in the spot where the Bluegrass kisses the Appalachian Mountains. I traveled the Hillbilly Highway North…

David Stafford: Fiction: July 2022
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David Stafford: Fiction: July 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: Just doodling ’round during the pandemic and thought I’d drop you a few lines. I’m still a tater-eating, ex-cotton picker from the Missouri bootheel, living in the…

Daun Daemon: Fiction: July 2022
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Daun Daemon: Fiction: July 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in the North Carolina foothills with my mama’s beauty shop outside my bedroom window and a car mechanic’s garage across the street. Both had…

Kenneth Sutton: Fiction: June 2022
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Kenneth Sutton: Fiction: June 2022

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Southern Literacy Statement: My friend Sam told if I’m tellin the truth I can wander around a little but if I’m puttin out a stretcher I better stick to the…

Bradley Sides: Fiction: May 2022
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Bradley Sides: Fiction: May 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: Those memories in the creek and at the picnic table are ones I want to live forever… Our Patches Back on one of the nights in what…

Neil Bearden: Fiction: May 2022
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Neil Bearden: Fiction: May 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: My Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Baton Rouge, LA, in 1973, to a sixteen-year old mother. I shot guns and painted cheap apartments with a…

Lukas Tallent: Fiction: May 2022
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Lukas Tallent: Fiction: May 2022

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Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised in no where, southeast Tennessee, where more men went to fight for the union (including my great great great great whatever pappy) than…

Ryan Stone: Fiction: April 2022
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Ryan Stone: Fiction: April 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up on my grandparents’ cattle farm in the Missouri Ozarks. Baptized by springs and copperheads and cow dung and cave mud and family turkey shoots,…

Dominic Burke: Fiction: April 2022
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Dominic Burke: Fiction: April 2022

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My Southern Legitimacy Statement: I once read Mason and Dixon by Thomas Pynchon and thought it was alright. I wrote this story based on my experience with memory and the…

James Vachowski: Flash Fiction: April 2022
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James Vachowski: Flash Fiction: April 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: James Vachowski once spent 21 days confined to a quarantine facility in southern China. A former resident of both South Carolina and Beijing, he speaks Mandarin with…

Tracy Snyder: Fiction: March 2022
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Tracy Snyder: Fiction: March 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am a Texas girl, born and raised. My grandparents were old enough to be my great-grandparents, but they reared me. Engulfed in Southern culture and Southern…

Constance Gorman: Fiction: March 2022
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Constance Gorman: Fiction: March 2022

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My Southern Legitimacy Statement : Life was meant to be lived: for better or for worse. Me and Bobby Me, Momma and Bobby were ALMOST sent to the Promised Land…

Susan Robbins: Fiction: March 2022
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Susan Robbins: Fiction: March 2022

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My Southern Legitimacy Statement: I soaked the cured ham for two days and then boiled it for two hours but it was still too salty so I started over, fearing…

Garin Cycholl: Fiction: March 2022
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Garin Cycholl: Fiction: March 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: In reference to my hometown in southeastern Illinois, my cousin used to say, “The South begins about five miles south of here.” I still cannot agree. You…

Simra Bhakta: Fiction: March 2022
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Simra Bhakta: Fiction: March 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: Simran Bhakta is an emerging writer from Texas. She likes her tea iced, and sweet (And not served unsweetened with a jar of sugar when she requests…

Elle Lane: Fiction: March 2022
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Elle Lane: Fiction: March 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Kansas City, MO. Not technically, on the Missouri side mind you–but that’s the bit of Kansas City I claim. Nothing has ever happened…

Bonnie Brewer-Kraus: Fiction: Feb 2022
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Bonnie Brewer-Kraus: Fiction: Feb 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I live south of Lake Erie now, the shallowest of the Great lakes and the one with the most shipwrecks, but my mother’s family started in Virginia,…

Marie Griffin: Fiction: Feb 2022
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Marie Griffin: Fiction: Feb 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am a South Carolina explorer, drama maker, and am known for being a bit high-strung. i enjoy going on long walks, taking pictures of snakes, and…

Duane L. Herrmann: flash fiction: Feb 2022
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Duane L. Herrmann: flash fiction: Feb 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: His southern roots go back to the 1750s when the first European branch of his family settled in Virginia. A son, Abendego, enlisted in the Continental Army…

Mark Poe: Flash Fiction: Feb 2022
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Mark Poe: Flash Fiction: Feb 2022

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was raised in a sand blow surrounded by the cotton fields around Black Oak, Arkansas. My kids are still filling empty butter bowls with the same…

Elizabeth Spencer Spragins: Flash Fiction: Jan 2022
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Elizabeth Spencer Spragins: Flash Fiction: Jan 2022

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My Southern Legitimacy Statement: I went to college in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, home of the Krispy Kreme donut. One of my elders (who shall remain nameless to protect the guilty)…

David VanDevelder: Fiction: Dec. 2021
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David VanDevelder: Fiction: Dec. 2021

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: We were a prototypical southern nuclear family. My Papaw came up in the Great Smokey Mountains, near Farner, Tennessee and Cherokee, North Carolina. When he was nine,…

Benjamin Abel: Fiction Part II, Dec 2021
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Benjamin Abel: Fiction Part II, Dec 2021

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As for my Southern Legitimacy, I was born in Southern Indiana but my parents quickly relocated to Clarksville, Tennessee and then my adopted hometown of Fayetteville, North Carolina. As an…

Benjamin Abel: Fiction, Part I: Dec 2021
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Benjamin Abel: Fiction, Part I: Dec 2021

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As for my Southern Legitimacy, I was born in Southern Indiana but my parents quickly relocated to Clarksville, Tennessee and then my adopted hometown of Fayetteville, North Carolina. As an…

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