The Dead Mule Blog
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The Dead Mule blog is an informative online blog that features a variety of essays, fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. You'll find stories that transport you to different worlds and touch your heart. The blog supports both established and new writers, creating a friendly community.
The Dead Mule Blog
19h ago
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in Sumter, South Carolina, grew up in the village of Walnut, jewel of Madison County, North Carolina, and spent my early adulthood in Nashville, Tennessee. I started writing seriously in high school, working in the song genre while playing in a band that practiced not in a garage but ..read more
The Dead Mule Blog
19h ago
I’ve lived in the southwest corner of Georgia all of my forty-seven years. Cows and lightning bugs outnumber the people. Lynyrd Skynyrd is the finest American rock band of all time, and Lewis Grizzard wrote real literature. Saturdays in the fall, with SEC football on the television or radio, is as close to heaven as ..read more
The Dead Mule Blog
19h ago
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in a very rural part of North Carolina’s Cape Fear Basin. My grade school was part of Penderlea, “America’s first farm city,” a depression-era homesteading project that ultimately failed. I went on to the University in Chapel Hill, where I roomed 20 feet and 50 years from Thomas Wolfe ..read more
The Dead Mule Blog
5d ago
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I grew up in a part of Oklahoma known as Little Dixie. I don’t consider Oklahoma to be in the Deep South any more than you do, but I believe most Oklahomans to be Southerners – the ones I was brought up around anyway. Regardless, the story is about the healing power ..read more
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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised in Palestine, Texas. I carry it with me. I may be a pro-choice, non-southern baptist, resident of Wisconsin, but I am still a Texan! I’ll be thankin’ of all y’all when I stroll through the woods without worry of rattlers, copperheads, scorpions, cougars, and boars. A Trip ..read more
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5d ago
I am a native of Dobson, North Carolina, so yes, I am in fact south of somewhere! I am an infantry officer working as a regional response planner for NORTHCOM Homeland Region I. Quiet Splendor Landmarks and milestones speakto us of homes undisturbed.Removed from upcountry, leaving gardens and orchardsplanted, good friends and past events,we dread ..read more
The Dead Mule Blog
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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born in the Blue Ridge mountains in southwestern Virginia, and those mountains are still imprinted on my soul—I find it necessary to visit and hike there every year. My father raised me on bluegrass music, which he discovered there. I also lived in Tennessee in my early years, and I’ve ..read more
The Dead Mule Blog
5d ago
Southern Legitimacy Statement: I was born and raised on a farm in Cerro Gordo, North Carolina – a town of around 200-300 people you have almost certainly never heard of. The main attractions are: the Wikipedia description of the town’s naming, the one gas station that my uncle owned for the longest time, the Family ..read more
The Dead Mule Blog
1w ago
Southern Legitimacy Statement: Born in Jackson, Mississippi, I attended Millsaps College and more recently completed my MFA in Creative Writing at the Mississippi University for Women. I have lived in New Orleans for twenty years but built a log cabin on the Bogue Chitto River, deep in the Mississippi woods. My time there heavily influences ..read more
The Dead Mule Blog
1w ago
Are you Southern? Then you know what I’m talking about here. Collards. The Collard Man, who sold his produce at the corner of Bridge Street and Third died this year. For months, a large white bow with a lovely silk floral arrangement hung on the utility pole where he parked his truck. I kinda figured everyone ..read more