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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 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 would be obliged for your impressions of California if you go there. It puzzles me about like the thinking machine." On publishing a book: "Around here if you publish the number of whiskers on the local pigs, everybody has to give you a tea." ~~~ More Stories from the Archives by these great writers! Charles Dowdy ~ Augusta Scattergood ~ Susan Moody ~ Billy Tom Lusk ~ Bill Fullerton ~ Anne McKee ~ Lonnye Sue Pearson ~ Jim Colasanti ~ Dana Sieben ~ Tom Givens ~ David Norris ~ Leroy Morganti ~Southern Speak~ GEE HAW ~agree~ Her daddy took one look at her check book and knew those figures she gave him didn't gee haw. For more great Southern expressions, please click here. @2001 ~ 2008 All Rights Reserved Best viewed on IE Updated June/08

~Summer ‘08~ Featured Articles Best reading on the Net! _______________________________ Greetings! Enjoy these great stories and poems from U.S. Deep South writers. * Al McSweyn - Dancing to King Neptune & the Sea Biscuits... * Gene Owens - Raspberry Running Ant Is Coming! * Ross Cavins - A Summer Sunday * Bob Vance Moulder - Bustin' a Watermelon... * Peggy Rice Wright - Memory Flavored Ice Cream * Eddie Draper - Oasis * Maxine Sommers - Mackinac Island * Gail Livesay - A Kid Again * Andy McNeil - The Difference Between Men and Boys... * C. W. Hardeman - Figs! * Jane-Ann Heitmueller - Grosspapa and the Crow * Hollis Baker - Way Up Morgan Creek * Ralph Gordon - Gone Fishing * Phil Bratcher - Pimento Cheese Spread * Newt Harlan - That's Entertainment ~ '50s Style * Mike Windham - Finding the Front of a Tree * Marion M. Dollar - My Bad Day * Curtis L. Johnson, Sr. - More Than Race * Jackie Cooper - My Uncle Frank * Ralph Jones - The Storm That Never Came * Kent Fletcher - Psssssssssst! * USADS Readers - Southern Expressions ~ NEW! * Ann Ipock - Be the CEO of Your Own Life * Annie Taylor - Pa and the Red Mower * Thomas Burns - Mobile Animal Services * Kendall Vealey - My Favorite Southern Expressions * Mary Scobey - Out of my Element * Beth Boswell Jacks - Forget Your Troubles, C'mon, Get Older! ~~~~~~~~~~ Southern Food Thoughts for the Day: "The only artful way to fix string beans is to cook them almost to death." ~ Ludlow Porch "I'll be happy to get home and eat two-year-old ham, corn bread, beaten biscuits, pound cake, yellow-leg fried chicken, and corn pudding." ~Duncan Hines "You can tell how long a couple has been married by whether they are on their first, second, or third bottle of Tabasco." ~ Bruce R. Bye "The true Southern watermelon is ... chief of this world's luxuries, king by the grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat!" ~ Mark Twain

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