Randall Ivey :: Call Me Aa-ron ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Despite being from a place called Union (South Carolina), I am a born, bred, and dyed-in-the wool Southerner. Call Me Aa-ron If you run into me somewhere and say hey, don’t call me Air-ron. That ain’t my...
Scott McLeod :: Cody ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am from the South shore of Long Island which is positively Faulknerian if you compare it to Gatsby’s East Egg. Cody “You ever seen a dead body?” asked Cody. I was just glad he was speaking...
Karen Klein :: Remnants ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: This story arrived while I was sitting in the cemetery in Morgantown, West Virginia at the end of S High Street. It was a place I frequented often on sunny days, or cool days, too if it...
Jordan Thornton :: Youth Grouping ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up falling asleep to the sound of a box fan in the window. I’ll stop at any fruit stand that’s selling boiled peanuts. There aren’t many bodies of water that I won’t swim in. My...
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...
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...
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...
Wess Everett :: Eyes That Cast Stones ::
Southern legitmacy statement: I was born in Fort Payne, Alabama in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains. I’ve lived in Alabama my entire life, and I’ve struggled to find anywhere that I like better. However, like many other southerners, I...
Avi Ben-Zeev :: Troubled Waters ::
Southern legitimacy statement: Okay, so I’m not from The South, and even though I sound American, whatever that means, I was born and raised in the Southern Levant (AKA Palestine). But The South called one day, specifically, the psychology department...
Andrew Keith :: Grudge ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Raised by rednecks and roughnecks, I reckon no one holds a grudge like a southerner. I’m from Johnson City, Tennessee – yes, the one from “Wagon Wheel” and I sure hope I’m the only ten-you-see. Happy to...
Courtney McEunn :: Sour ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in the swampy craplands they call central Florida. I ran around the sand roads barefoot, swam in the giant oil puddles they called lakes, went tubing and canoeing alongside alligators and snakes on more...
Lee Wright :: Southern Sunday Snow ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Growing up in northwest Georgia, very near Chattanooga, right on the Tennessee state line, my parents would drag me to a small independent Pentecostal church every Sunday morning as well as every Sunday and Wednesday night. It...
JD Clapp :: Morrells and Morals ::
Southern Legitimacy Statement–Born a Yankee, grew up a SoCal boy, did a stint in the midwest, but always more at home south of the border in CA, and south of Ohio when I lived there. Gimme a bourbon on the...
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