Tom Sheehan : Dared Dream : Flash Fiction : December 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I have been in your magazine, have babysat grandchildren in NC, and trained for the Korean engagement with ETSU’s 278th Infantry. Dared Dream I didn’t want to wake you too early. I hope your sleep was deep,...
Andrew Hamilton : Holy Water : Flash Fiction : December 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: For years I lived off barbecue ribs in Memphis, Tennessee, then broke up with my ex and moved to California, which turned out to be a big mistake, because people out west don’t drink beer and raise...
Andy Spain : Off Me, I Said Get : Flash Fiction : December 2019
Born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. Only wore shoes if I was going to church or school. Relocated to North Carolina where I now enjoy Bojangles’ Famous Chicken ‘n Biscuits. Off Me, I Said Get Moron. Loser. Dumbass. These were...
Matt Naylor : The Box : Flash Fiction : December 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born in Tennessee, raised in Kentucky, live in North Carolina. I’ve bumped my head in tens of caves where Daniel Boone was rumored to have slept, and each time I’ve believed it. The Box The summer sun...
Bruce La Rue: Lonesome Dove Hunter : Essay/Memoir : December 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born in Salisbury, NC, I moved quite a bit as a child. We lived in several places throughout my home state before relocating to Jacksonville, FL while I was in the fifth grade. After thirty years I...
Robert Funderburk : Poetry : December 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born by coal oil lamplight in a tin-roofed farmhouse 6 miles outside Liberty, Mississippi. I list logging, plowing a mule, picking cotton and working in a country store in my resume. Learned to swim in...
E. G. Fate : Car Thief’s Redemption : Flash Fiction : December 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: E. G. Fate is the penname of an author, who currently resides in the state of South Carolina in the basement of their family’s house. While having no works published as of yet (aside from stories on...
Robert Gwaltney: Ash : Fiction : December 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: A good piece back, I was Drum Major for The Pride of Dixie, Cairo High School, Syrupmaker Marching Band. It was during these formative years I developed a talent for walking backwards for long stretches of time. Ash...
Catherine Wright : Homecoming : Flash Fiction : December 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Being from West Virginia, I am from a certain section of the South. I am Appalachian raised with a special place in my heart of all things Southern. Homecoming I woke up sweaty, tangled in the white...
Rhys Beleu : Uncle Dwayne’s Luger : Fiction : December 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: * here’s how they talk in Somewhere, Texas? Uncle Dwayne’s Luger “Sue-Lynn called me hollerin’ an’ bawlin’ over the phone: ‘Oh Uncle Joe, it’s jus’ the awfullest thang!’ ‘Whut the hell er ya caterwallerin’ ‘bout, Sue-Lynn?’ I...
Robert Gwaltney: Ash : Fiction : December 2019
Southern Legitimacy Statement: A good piece back, I was Drum Major for The Pride of Dixie, Cairo High School, Syrupmaker Marching Band. It was during these formative years I developed a talent for walking backwards for long stretches of time....
William Walsh : Fly fishing in Times Square : New Book by Dead Mule Writer
William Walsh Fly Fishing in Times Square The seventh book from William Walsh is an award-winning collection of poems, Fly Fishing in Times Square, where he recalls the past in order to discover meaning in the present and future. From...
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