Stories – Snake & Tree

August 5, 2018August 5, 2018

Aliens in Alabama

Rednecks by and large believe in aliens. And I’m not quite sure why.

May 29, 2018

Loving the Bigots: Roseanne’s Cancelation and Methodist Potato Salad

Unpopular opinion meets class-derived multiplicity.

March 24, 2018

A Mississippi miss will set you free

Ode to Southern women, the girls who’ve been whooping asses longer than anybody should have to.

March 5, 2018May 17, 2018

Still on Subsistence: Redneck Survival and The Walking Dead

Crossbows, accents, and bad bitches. The Walking Dead is the white trash Game of Thrones.

February 12, 2018February 12, 2018

Meth Mouth

As if you needed to know the various ways policies have ignored the meth epidemic.

February 3, 2018February 3, 2018

Guilt, Shame & the Southern Imaginary

We can feel guilt or shame about our ancestors. Or we can drink a lot and get to work.

February 2, 2018February 2, 2018

Posted on The Baffler

DACA, undocumented-gay-boylesque-dancing Alabamans, and what Trump got wrong–per usual–in the State of the Union.

I’m Rachel, a jaded twenty-something English grad student looking to tell some stories. Currently based in Nashville, born and bred in rural Alabama. Here you’ll find liberal political tirades, stories, book reviews, and folklore focused in on these lower Southeastern thirteen states.

The title, Snake and Tree, comes from the Alabama proverb that if you hang a dead snake in a tree it’ll bring rain. These stories are the snake. The rain is making peace with this broke South.