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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 Oct~2004 Nov~2004 Dec~2004 Winter~2005 Spring~2005 Summer~2005 Fall~2005 Winter~2005 Spring~2006 Summer~2006 Fall~2006 Winter~2006 Spring~2007 Summer~2007 Fall~2007 Winter~2007 Feature pages may be accessed back to October, 2002. 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 "These days you caint even have you a good psychosomatic ailment to get yourself a rest." "I felt I ought to do something like Senator Pappy O'Daniels. He conducted the Light Crust Dough Boys over the radio every Mother's Day and recited an original poem. One went: 'I had a mother. I had to have. I lover whether she's good or bad. I lover whether she's live or dead. Whether she's an angel or a old dope head.' You poets express yourseves so well in so little space." ~~~ More Stories from the Archives by these great writers! Charles Dowdy ~ Rebecca Reinwalt ~ Terry Everett ~ Tom Givens ~ Jo McDivitt ~ Mike Windham ~ Jennifer Morgan ~ Mitch Chase ~ Lisa Kendrick ~ Lonnye Sue Pearson ~ Phil Bratcher ~ Madeline Otts ~Southern Speak~ SPOSED ~supposed~ I was sposed to make my debut but the sponsors were horrified beyond reason that I’d pierced my freakin’ tongue. Whatever! For more great Southern expressions, please click here. @2001 ~ 2008 All Rights Reserved Best viewed on IE Updated Mar/08

~Spring ‘08~ Featured Articles _______________________________ Greetings! Enjoy these great stories and poems from U.S. Deep South writers. * Bonnie B. Horton - Be Reasonable & It's A Job * Beth Boswell Jacks - Poems for Children * David Norris - When Living Gets Hard * Gene Owens - Look out! Pythons are on their way ~ * Newt Harlan - Basura Blanca News * Bill Fullerton - 25 Great Southern Novels * Curtis Fesler - Remembering Fred * Walter B. Jackson - Angels Carried Him Away * Claude Jones - Wilburn King * Betty Beamguard - Featherbed Nights * Eddie Draper - My First Grader’s First Picture * Kent Fletcher - Ghosts . . . * Beth Boswell Jacks - Speed Dating ~ A race to romance * C. W. Hardeman - Green Landscaping * Jane-Ann Heitmueller - Why, Granny? * Robert Ridings - A Hug By God * Arnold Dyre - Falling Off A Roof . . . ? * Rose Williams - A Plain White Box * Marshall Dean - Cowpots * Doug Green - Huntin’ Tales ~ Mississippi Delta * Melanie M. Mansfield - Homeschooling ~ You what? * Jackie Cooper - What You Going To Do? * Carolyn Bertram-Arnold - Scary Bears, Lemon Cookies . . . * Amy Johnson Davis - Southern Double Names * Curtis Johnson, Sr. - Mattson, Mississippi * Peggy Rice Wright - Red-haired Rebel With a Cause * Ralph Gordon - Lady Longwood * Eric W. Pelkey - The River Bend * Marion M. Dollar - My Grandfather’s Tales * Michael Gafford - Spring Memories - 1967 * Gail Livesay - Two Poems * Hollis Baker - Texas Birdwatching * Shirley Moll - Alabama Shower * Ian T. Cully - To Keep Kentucky Free * Ann Ipock - Adult Braces ~ What fun! ~~~~~~~~~~ Southern Food Thoughts for the Day: "The Moonpie is more than a snack. It is a cultural artifact." ~ William Ferris "If we're going to cook a mess of greens we want to eat them with a mess of people." ~ Julia Reed

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