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

Brian Frazier: One Call (flash fiction)

Southern Legitimacy Statement: The Fraziers come from the Kentucky Hills...
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New Mule on the Third

The September issue of the Dead Mule School of Southern...
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Fiction

Eric Luthi: Waffles and Bacon (Fiction)

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Pliny was a Roman statesman who lived about...
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Brodie Lowe: Saddling (fiction)

Southern Legitimacy Statement: North Carolinian by birth. Raised on about ten...
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Fiction

Nick Bertelson: It Says Something about a Man (fiction)

Southern Legitimacy Statement: Though I live in Iowa, I know a...
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Fiction

Phillip Hall: Special Delivery (Short Fiction)

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I live in Virginia, along with most of...
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Fiction

Valerie MacEwan: Local Girls Finds Glory (short fiction)

I knew I’d best get in the mail before I...
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Fiction

Cecil Geary: An Early Death (fiction)

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was raised in central Kentucky, southern...
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Fiction

Joshua Caleb Wilson: A Man Named Karen (fiction)

Southern Legitimacy Statement: What on earth is a “Southern Legitimacy Statement”...
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Essays

Deanna Benjamin: Pleiades (essay/memoir)

Southern Legitimacy Statement: In 2004, after living in Savannah, Georgia,...
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Fiction

Jake W. Ford: A Fear All Her Own (flash fiction)

Southern Literacy Statement:  I’m a fifth generation East Tennessean. I’ve...
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Fiction

Daun Daemon: Good Customers (fiction)

SOUTHERN LEGITIMACY STATEMENT: Born and raised in Caldwell County, North...
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Fiction

Michael Wade: Collard Heaven (Fiction)

Southern Legitimacy Statement (one of the best ever): After we moved...
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Past Mules

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Mourning Dove by Claire Fullerton (a novel)

“I’d never had a broken heart and didn’t understand the...
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Essays

Step and Do Not Step (memoir)

Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in a small town...
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