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The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
No good [Southern] writing is complete without a dead mule. Established 1996.
The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
No good [Southern] writing is complete without a dead mule. Established 1996.
Fiction

Mule Redux Mea Culpa :: Writers in the Storm ::

Into this barn you’re born. The Doors reference there. Shows...
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Creative Non-Fiction / MemoirsMule Redux Mea Culpa

Ted Harrison :: How Lovely Are They Branches ::

Christmas in May. How lovely. Sorry, Ted, this one got...
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2026/30Poetry

David Earl Williams, The Absurdilachian

MY LAST SOUTHERN LEGITIMACY STATEMENT: I was born in the...
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2026/30Poetry

CL Bledsoe :: “Raining Apples” A Chapbook by one of the finest editors the Mule ever had… ::

Cort worked with me on the Mule for years. He...
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2026/30Poetry

A Hua :: “Blooming Like Flowers,” “Full Like Moon,” and other poems ::

The Poet: A Hua, born Wang Xiaohua, is from Weihai, Shandong...
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2026/30Poetry

winterSmith :: Ten Quick Poems ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: winterSmith (aka Sam) was born in and...
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2026/30Poetry

Jim Rogers :: “We Don’t Know,” and two more poems ::

I am a blue blooded Southerner Jimmy Derrick was my...
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2026/30Poetry

Helen Losse :: Comfort Me With Angels ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born in Joplin, Missouri, which is only...
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2026/30Poetry

Scott Owens :: “Existential Knot,” “Distractions” ::

From Scott:In her wonderful poem, “The Summer Day,” Mary Oliver...
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