Oxford Comma’s COVID-19 Writing Challenge Week 3: Submission by Nicole Murchison
April 15th, 2020 | by TLV News
Week 3: The feeling of being trapped Short story submission by Nicole Murchison How Rock Stars Handle Spidersfor Amanda Shires
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Oxford Comma’s COVID-19 Writing Challenge Week 2: Submission by Karen K. Johnson
April 6th, 2020 | by TLV News
Week 2: The feeling when a person lets you down Memoir submission by Karen K. Johnson There. The piercing words
Oxford Comma’s COVID-19 Writing Challenge Week 1: Submission by Timber Heard
April 2nd, 2020 | by TLV News
Week 1: Write about the feeling of being alone or lonely. The Only of the LoneliesI am, or must be, the
Oxford Comma’s COVID-19 Writing Challenge Week 1: Submission by Judy Daniel
April 2nd, 2020 | by TLV News
Week 1: Write about the feeling of being alone or lonely. Alone in the Days of the PlagueBy Judy Daniel
A Short Story by Shane Brown of Brown Family Dairy
March 18th, 2020 | by TLV News
I went up into the pasture this morning to get my last set of cows to milk. I hate this
“The Toothbrush”
July 16th, 2019 | by Newt Rayburn
A couple of nights ago, I had one of those parenting moments that seemed like a scene from a book,
“Color Blind Advice at the Seaside”: A short story by Vera P.
July 25th, 2018 | by Nature Humphries
“A change is coming.” Vicky sang that blues song all day, “A change is coming, but I don’t know what
The Way We Live Now
August 8th, 2016 | by Brittain Thompson
Written by: Charles Ramsay McCrory The day her summer-long depression lifted, Julie announced that she was writing a novel, a
Magnolia Vagabond No. 12: Mythical Mississippi
May 18th, 2016 | by Rafael Alvarez
“Watching Son House perform bottleneck guitar was akin to seeing a locomotive on a downhill run…” – Jas Obrecht, blues
The Great Magnolia Vagabond No. 11: Mississippi Meat Man
May 8th, 2016 | by Rafael Alvarez
I took some criticism for this bit of travelogue. Not for participating–after all, the Meat Man was giving away advice
Marc Ribot, Part Three: When Irony Wears Thin
March 28th, 2016 | by Rafael Alvarez
“The melancholic music of Negro American folk origin, the blues emerged slowly at the turn of the 19th century from
Oxford Writes: A New Group for Writers
March 20th, 2016 | by Nature Humphries
Oxford Writes is a single-day writing event and the brainchild of Mississippi native and Oxford writer, Jeff Roberson. While driving
The Great Magnolia Vagabond: Buzzed Up In Oxford
March 16th, 2016 | by Rafael Alvarez
We were pulled over by about six police cars just outside downtown Oxford not long after a young woman on
The Great Magnolia Vagabond No. 9 / 1993: Schooled by “Rule” in Holly Springs
February 10th, 2016 | by Brittain Thompson
Some two decades after first hiding in a bedroom closet in the middle of the day when some Betty’s husband came home
Poem: “Muscadines” by James Tighe
January 15th, 2016 | by TLV News
“Muscadines” Muscadines, muscadines Lenten-purple fruit of the land the supreme bunchless grape Muscadines, muscadines the word itself derived from the
Croutons, Bread Crumbs, Central heating, and Such
January 14th, 2016 | by TLV News
In Russia we have a great respect for bread. We call it “Father,” say “Bread is the staff of life,” take
Poem: “Like Sun” by Caleb Fisher-Wirth
January 13th, 2016 | by TLV News
“Like Sun” I don’t remember this: drooling in my crib, the mom whose name I didn’t yet know, sipping
Poem: “One-Way Song” by Elizabeth Tettleton
January 12th, 2016 | by TLV News
“One-Way Song” Not the flyers brightly placed, suspiciously conspicuous for all to observe. Not her eyes smeared with shadow, base
Bonerama in Baltimore: New Orleans Jazz Festival North
January 11th, 2016 | by Rafael Alvarez
In the 1962 movie Kid Galahad, Elvis Presley belted it out like so. “A poor man wants the oyster, a rich
Marc Ribot, Way Down South: Part One
January 9th, 2016 | by Rafael Alvarez
Marc Ribot, the well-traveled guitarist best known for his work with Tom Waits and the Lounge Lizards, laments that he
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