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Home - I Home - II Writers Articles Links Stories from the Press Snippets Editor's Bio E-mail Message to Writers Message Board Bulletin Board Submissions Free Update Link to USADS USADS BACK ISSUES Summer~2005 Fall~2005 Winter~2005 Spring~2006 Summer~2006 Fall~2006 Winter~2006 Spring~2007 Summer~2007 Fall~2007 Winter~2007 Spring~2008 Summer~2008 Feature pages may be accessed back to October, 2002. Click here USADS ~~Most Popular Pages~~ Southern Names Southern Expressions Southern Humor Southern Memoirs Southern Cooking Bottletrees Southern Fiction Great stories! Great reading! Humor, poetry, history, memoirs . . . and more! Submit a story Great Deep South photography! Visit these web sites to view beautiful images of the Southland. Will Jacks at Wiljax.com Melanie Mansfield at MelanieMansfield.com ARTICLES ABOUT SOUTHERN PEOPLE AND PLACES . . . AND ANYTHING ELSE WE FANCY! One of the best sites on the Net for readers, writers, storytellers, travelers, nostalgia buffs, and gossips. Southern Talk FLANNERY O'CONNOR comments "I don’t have my novel outlined and I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don’t know so well what I think until I see what I say." “Believe me, I work all the time, but I cannot work fast. No one can convince me I shouldn’t rewrite as much as I do.” ~~~ More Stories from the Archives by these great writers! Gene Goodson ~ Eddie Draper ~ Leroy Morganti ~ Mary Scobey ~ Keetha Reed ~ Kent Fletcher ~ Gilda Brown ~ Claude Jones ~ Jim Goudelock ~ Mike Reed ~ Walter Jackson ~ Tom Givens ~Southern Speak~ PURT NEAR ~ close ~ That Jones gal was purt near to being the meanest ol’ heifer in the county. I avoided her like the plague. For more great Southern expressions, please click here. @2001 ~ 2008 All Rights Reserved Best viewed on IE Updated Sept/08

~Fall ‘08~ Featured Articles Best reading on the Net! _______________________________ Greetings! Enjoy these great stories and poems from U.S. Deep South writers. * Max Power - South Carolina Bottle Tree * Gene Owens - Save the Kudzu! * Newt Harlan - The Day the Hogs Ate My Little Brother * Peggy Rice Wright - More Than Singing on Sunday Afternoons * Terry Everett - Owen and Maggie Jo’s Birthday Cake * Ray Maxie - From the Frying Pan into the Fire * Lonnye Sue Pearson - I Had The Time Of My Life * Jo McDivitt - My New Beau * Al McSweyn - House of the Possum Hunter * Eddie Draper - The Shadow of Your Breath * Curtis Johnson - Man, Mule and Mouse * Gail Livesay - A Southern Tale * Andy McNeil - Cotton Tails and Tap Sticks * C. W. Hardeman - Zinnias * Jim Holder - The Lady and the Lynx * Charles Jones - Momma Mocking Bird * Brenda Blakely - Conversion in the New Derael Tent Revival * Phil Bratcher - Status * Dave Norris - Where’s Service with a Smile? * Annie Taylor - The Halloween Gorilla * Ralph Jones - DDT ~ yum, yum! * Tasha Mitchell - Two Poems * Jackie Cooper - Walking Tall * Bettye Galloway - The Last of His Kind * Melanie K. Wooten - World War II ~ Virginia Childhood * Sherry Hill - Grandmother Wisdom * Ann Ipock - Cherished Keepsakes * Danny Barbare - Three Poems * John Milton Wesley - The Passing of Tim Russert * Pam Smith Williamson - Cleaning Out Memories * Marshall Dean - Fireflies or Lightning Bugs? * Arnold Dyre - Thinking is Powerful Work * Beth Boswell Jacks - Hula hoops: Here We Go 'Round... ~~~~~~~~~~ Southern Wisdom Thought for the Day: "The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." ~ Harper Lee

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