A. R. Robins: Late (micro fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’ve lived in about every area of Missouri a person can mange to live, beginning in Gentry County, about two hours north Kansas City and ending up in Bollinger County, about two hours south of St Louis. I...
Adam Van Winkle: Snake In the Chicken Coop (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement : Adam Van Winkle was born and raised in Texoma on both sides of the Oklahoma-Texas border and fried okra is one his favorite things on earth… Snake In The Chicken Coop “I told a lot of...
Donna Nixon-Walker: In Weldon’s Photo (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am a native Texan and saw so many Southern Gothic people as I grew up. In Weldon’s Photo Children do not fathom the sketchy dotted lines of kinship. Like prized jewelry, we adorned Mother’s arms and lap....
Tom Shehan: Lyle’s Word on the Lexicon of Forcible Memory (fiction)
My Southern Legitimacy Statement says: I have appeared several times in your pages, have read and been published in North Carolina, and one of my sons resides in North Carolina where I have visited and vacationed. Lyle’s Word On The...
Taylor Phillips: Sons of Sisyphus (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Texas and raised in Texas, as were my parents and grandparents and great grandparents and so on. I grew up in the Big Thicket of Southeast Texas and currently reside in the Hill Country...
Randall Ivey: Mae Ola, A Remonstrance
Southern Legitimacy Statement: As for my Southern Legitimacy Statement, except for some brief excursions here and there, I have always lived in South Carolina. Mae Ola, A Remonstrance You just love to worry, don’t you? Wallow in worrying, I say....
October Issue online by the 5th
We’re running behind, sorry to all those awaiting the joys of our October Issue. It will be here soon, y’all hang on … it’s coming, we promise. -Valerie MacEwan
Phoebe Kate Foster: Metropolitan Life
Ms. Foster was the fiction editor of the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature for over 15 years. Her tireless dedication to good fiction made her a cherished resource. We miss her daily. This story comes to us via her...
Cecil Geary: The End of the Pier (short fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was raised in central Kentucky, southern Indiana, and southern California. We moved to California when I was twelve years old. The End of the Pier It was still dark when we started out for Newport Beach. We...
Nina Fosati: You Got to Throw the Little Ones Back (flash fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement We’ve got Texas relatives who, for years, have told us we have to move to the land of living large. I witnessed the following exchange at the Houston airport. You Got to Throw the Little Ones Back...
Helen Wurthmann: Not Funny Ha-Ha (fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised in Missouri, whose Southern statehood led to the civil war, regardless of whether or not modern Missourians consider themselves Southerners. Missouri and I are the middle children of our respective families: often overlooked...
Anne Anthony: Music As Her Refuge (Fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement Anne Anthony lives in North Carolina though when she engages you in conversation it’s clear she was born above the Mason-Dixon Line. Still, if she’s reading you her stories, sometimes her voice slides into the gentle sway...
Neva Bryan: Sparks and Vinegar (Short Fiction)
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Kentucky-born and Virginia-raised, I am the daughter and granddaughter of coal miners. As a child, I played in the woods every summer day, caught lightning bugs in jars at night, and made lunch out of saltine crackers slathered...
Poetry
Essays
