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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

James Roderick Burns :: Don’t Mention the Mole Men ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Married to a woman from Ocilla, GA...
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Fiction

Phillip T Kehoe :: Bucktown Mona Lisa ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Fifty years within fifty miles of Cafe...
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Fiction

Jim Rogers :: Dirt Wars ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: My Big Ditch  Daddy finally made enough...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Gael Blake :: A True Short Tale and Certainly Not Tall ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am a true blue Southern Belle....
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Sarah Trautwein :: That Stupid Blue Camel with the Wrinkled Knees ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in wildly wonderful state...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Marina Yingling :: Nineteen ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in Virginia! I’m now...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Kimberly Shaw :: Booch ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: As far south of Kansas you can...
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Creative Non-Fiction / Memoirs

Thomas Chester :: Cars, My Old Man, and Life ::

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Although I fled Oklahoma in my 20s,...
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Flash Fiction

Ed Supranowicz :: A Modern Fairy Tale ::

Southern legitimacy statement: I have a deep need for manners...
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