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The Dead Mule Blog
Memoirs on the Dead Mule
The Dead Mule speaks in many voices. Mule Essays lead the mind into myriad swamps of distant memories or new … More
September Fiction and All
One week left before the Dead Mule publishes its October 2016 issue. Get your fill of September this week and … More
New Fiction and Essays for August 2016
We’ve got some damn fine fiction here for August. Sit back and read for a spell. You know, been thinking … More
Mule writer Kevin Winter publishes book of Short Stories
Check out Kevin Winter’s new short story collection “A Place We All Know: A Collection of Short Stories”
Pyramid Schemes and Multi-Level Marketing
Testimony on “Oversight of the SEC’s Division of Enforcement” Read the entire testimony by clicking on the title. Andrew Ceresney, … More
What is the south coming to?
Help the best of “The South” stay as is. Let the bitter past be studied — not re-lived — and let us not seek to destroy a unique culture.
Hey yall, we’re still here…
The Mule is still kicking but she’s a bit stable weary this month. We’re restoring databases from 2007 and then … More
Made it through the holidays …
I find more and more that the stories surround, and revolve around, the joys that are grand-kids. Having six of said creatures I have plenty of raw material to choose from. I also congratulate myself on not killing their mothers when they were teenagers, although I was sorely tempted at times.
Photographs for November 2013
This month’s photos come from the Library of Congress. They belong to you and me. While many of us take … More
Photo on the Cover of our October Issue by Al Lyons
What a wonderful photo, eh?
September 2013 is complete!
It’s not officially Fall but it sure is a great day out there in eastern NC. How about yall? Everyone ok?
Poetry Submissions
I hope Ed has his wheat all in before this rain.
Online and On Time
I don’t know what that means but it sounds good — doesn’t it? On time. For a literary journal, “on … More
Valerie MacEwan: Matthew Rose and “The Letters”
Recasting the throw-aways and detritus, the overheard and misspelled, the artist has fashioned a large expository drama that serves as fragmented window into our collective Zeitgeist. Sex, love, death, politics, aesthetics and the muddled semiotics of our age all find a place in this body of work and beckon the viewer to read, decipher and unravel. The pieces in The Letters resonate with an enigmatic poetic presence. The result is a significant body of work by an important American artist…
100 Writers x 100 Stories
Volume One of Dead Mule Fiction.
April – May front page and links
April – May 2013: Twenty-Eight Poets featuring Joseph Bathanti NC Poet Laureate 2012-2014 Two Original Poems Written in Celebration of Poetry at … More
Paranoia by Joseph Finder, movie to be released Aug 16th
About mid-way through this Mule’s life, I worked for Popmatters.com as the Books Editor. We had around 70 critics in … More
April Writer Spotlight – Robert Klein Engler and a bit more…
This month’s poetry rises above the pocosin and flies over our heads toward the astral plain. Having North Carolina’s poet … More
In Loving Memory
* * The 2013 April (Poetry Month) Issue of the Dead Mule is dedicated to the memory of Elsie R. … More
February and March 2013
New works
Poetry Contest and MORE by The Writer’s Workshop of Asheville
The Writers’ Workshop is holding its Annual Writers’ Retreat May 16-19 at Folly Beach (near Charleston, SC) – an ideal place to relax, write and review each other’s work. Click to read more about the Workshop’s upcoming events.
2013, how odd is it to type that?
Welcome to 2013. Welcome to the Dead Mule School of Southern Literature. We love your writing and we look forward … More
New for the end of the year …
Some new stories, a few essays … those wonderful poems. We’re leaving 2012 with a nice warm feeling. The Mule’s … More
December Fiction and Essays
Over the river and through the woods … The illustrations for the fiction and poetry sections this month come … More