Con Chapman: Hard Times (fiction) Nov. 2018
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Missouri, a border state, the site of a skirmish in the Civil War. I was raised in a county seat with a population of around 23,000, which doesn’t necessarily sound like a small...
Lynda Black: Love Lesson #6 – Room At The Inn (essay/memoir) Nov. 2018
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in North Carolina, within six miles of the land where my ancestor settled in the 1700s. Lacking frequent snow fall as children, my siblings, cousins, and I improvised. We used dried horse manure in our...
Charles S. Stover: The Slop Detail (micro-fiction) Nov. 2018
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in West Virginia and grew up in West Virginia and Kentucky. I remember when I was a child in West Virginia, running through the fields in the summer, stirring up grasshoppers and bumble bees, and...
Sean Lyon: Momma’s Letter to Inmate (Fiction) Nov. 2018
Southern Legitimacy Statement: The house I lived in as a child had to be abandoned when my parents got divorced. It sat on 54 acres of land, every inch of which I walked as a young man, sometimes eating apples,...
Brandon Burris: Next Door (essay) Nov. 2018
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’ve lived in Oklahoma almost my whole life. People who know nothing sometimes call Oklahoma the “Midwest,” but we say y’all here and eat gravy and know the importance of good manners, so every good Okie is a...
Philip Boddy, Jr.: Ecumenical Challenges (Memoir) Nov. 2018
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born in Chicago with maternal grandparents, who went back to the drawing board for childcare, probably saved me from a stint in Joliet. Mom was a “wild-child” in the late 1930’s and early 1940’s. Nana solved that by...
J. Edwards: Royal Blood (fiction) Nov. 2018
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am certified in using a picket fence, rubber flooring, and duct tape to seal a bedroom for a Florida CAT4 hurricane before running inside to drink. My blood is now mostly orange juice, BBQ sauce, and a...
Dennis Mitton: One By One. Each In Turn. Sans One. (essay/memoir) Nov. 2018
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I’m an ex-pat from Seattle and still miss the mind-your-own-business culture of my home and never, ever get used to waving to strangers or to tucking in my polo. But there is an honor and a history and...
Jessica Simpkiss: Poor Men’s Currency (fiction) Nov 2018
Poor Men’s Currency I sat at the kitchen table with my mother while we watched through the large bay window waiting for my father’s return. The fire sizzled and popped loudly from the other room. I listened as my mother’s...
November Issue coming soon — OOOPS 17th
November will be online by the 15th, our new publishing date each month. Yup, you got us right, we’ll start publishing the 15th through the 14th, new issues on the 15th. Make sense? Does to us. We’ll have new and...
Kermit Turner: Intrusion (micro-fiction) Oct 2018
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up on a farm in Lincoln County, NC– a farm too small to support a family, so my dad worked a forty-hour week in a furniture factory in addition to farming. I and my brothers and...
Karan Freimark: Justice for Charlie (short fiction) Oct. 2018
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in the Kentucky countryside. When we were kids, my brother and I ran across some poems by James Whitcomb Riley in an old discarded literature book. That book got knocked about in our house,...
Valeria Vose by Alice Bingham Gorman (a book discussion) Oct 2018
Valeria Vose, a Novel by Alice Bingham Gorman Published by She Writes Press, Berkeley, CA October 2018 “Time will come when, with elation, you will greet yourself arriving at your own door, in your own mirror, and each will smile...
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