The Dirty South

  • Ode to Spring (in Alabama)

    This post is being recycled for Fandango’s Flashback Friday, aka #FFF. Once again, it’s time for Chelsea Ann Owens’ Weekly Terrible Poetry Contest. Our writing prompt is Springtime, and my terrible poem is below. Springtime in the Dirty South don’t last fer long Well, hush my mouth!   Magnolia trees are the best part smell

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  • A Smiling Martyr

    A Smiling Martyr

    Today’s writing prompt at The Daily Post is the word, martyr. ℵ I recently moved back to Alabama after living in Connecticut for nearly four years. One Saturday morning I was driving down US 280, missing CT and my friends, a job that I’d loved,  and everything else I’d left behind. In short, I was homesick and feeling

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