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The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature title: The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature – No good Southern writing is complete without a dead mule. Established 1996. New issues on the 15th of every month.

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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am in the South of Somewhere ! Look After Your Mate: An Unfriendly Guide to Support Your Struggling Classmates We’re going to test you with some scenarios, real or similar to real-life situations, that you might encounter with struggling classmates during your time at uni. Please answer as truthfully as possible […]


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Southern Legitimacy Statement: Married to a woman from Ocilla, GA (featured here in childhood). Also, previously published in the Dead Mule and that’s southern forever. Don’t Mention the Mole Men IT HAD BEEN a long, hot summer.  They hadn’t taken the usual two-day car trip back to Georgia – Daddy was lost in Dissertationland, walled-in behind a […]


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Southern Legitimacy Statement: Fifty years within fifty miles of Cafe du Monde is surely south of somewhere. Yet in all the places I have lived I have heard people say: “Down here,” prefacing all that may follow as if nothing could be farther south than that spot. I have also been told that above us […]


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Southern Legitimacy Statement: My Big Ditch  Daddy finally made enough money selling used cars to build Mama a new house he had promised. It meant that our favorite play place, the Big Ditch would get covered over and no more tadpoles, and crawfish to capture in our Ball jars. Some of the boys actually ate […]


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Southern Legitimacy Statement: I am a true blue Southern Belle. But more like the Tom-boy Elly Mae Clampett was. Roamed the creeks and woods. But to get to those special places, I had to have a face off with Paw’s mean-ass mule, Jane. She’s the very reason I learned to climb a tree. She caught […]


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