JL Myers: Martyrs
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Generations of men in my family proudly have the middle name Leroy, including myself. And all of us have had home-cooked meals of squirrel or frog legs or venison and never turn down a slice of vinegar...
Hannah Jane Pearson: The Sum Belongings of a Long-Time Collector
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Texan turned South Carolinian, I’ve been tailgating more than I’ve been kissed–but I get all the sugar I need from my sweet tea.
CL Bledsoe: Three Stories about Hamlin, Arkansas
Southern Legitimacy Statement: CL Bledsoe grew up on a rice, cattle, and catfish farm in eastern Arkansas. He had a redbone hound named Red and a cat named Dog. He lives in northern Virginia with his daughter, where the food...
James Carbaugh: Ladies’ “Better” Dresses
Southern Legitimacy Statement: As a child I remember two bumper stickers that screamed out the following: “If your heart isn’t in Dixie, then get your ass out:” and, “I don’t give a damn how they do it in Ohio.” After internalizing...
Patrick Metoyer: From Where I Am
Southern Legitimacy Statement river town sleepy town cajuncreole spicy foods filé gumbo sultry air pop guns china berry trees joie de vivre laissez bon temps rouler
Robert Thompson: Potty Mouth Philosophers
Southern Legitimacy Statement: There is a warmness to the South. Beyond the obvious, the steamy summers and Goddawful humidity, its native peoples don’t hesitate to pass the offering plate for Ms Jenny’s nephew who came down with a dreadful ailment...
Van Wurm: Pachinko in the Afterlife
Southern Legitimacy Statement: For my prior publications in The Mule, I have written of my semi-fictional relatives from the part of the world where I first saw the light of day — West Alabama. This time the setting of my story...
Claire Fullerton: A Place in the World
Southern Legitimacy Statement: a proud Southerner from Memphis, Tennessee. For nine years, I worked in Memphis radio, beginning with a Memphis Music show on WSMS and ending on WEGR, on the infamous Beale Street. A Place in the World I used...
Rob Bockman: Costume Party
Southern Legitimacy Statement: A resident of South Carolina and a graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Rob Bockman writes fiction drawing from his experiences traveling across the Southeast, mostly through the lens of folklore and myth. The...
LaVonne Roberts: Coming Home
As a girl whose more Texan out of Texas than in, I’m known as Gotham City Cowgirl in parts out East and as the girl with the Texas is larger than France t-shirt in France Mostly, I’m known for takin’...
Claire Fullerton: Whistlin’ Dixie
Southern Legitimacy Statement I come from Memphis. I claim ownership to her nuances, which I wear like a badge of honor. And it’s not so much that I come from Memphis as I come from her ways and means. There’s...
Ronnie Sirmans: 4ever
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised in Georgia and that’s where I’ve returned. I’ve worked at Southern newspapers. And I enjoy tomato sandwiches each summer using tomatoes grown at home.
Joe Halstead: Hoppy
SOUTHERN LEGITIMACY STATEMENT: It’s kind of wild where I grew up. I had my own gun at six years old. Ran down rabbits with my dad and helped beat their heads against the bumper of the truck, because they weren’t...
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