Snake & Tree

September 7, 2017September 13, 2017

Kinds of Rich I’d Be

The tide’s gonna turn and it’s all gonna roll your way.

September 4, 2017September 19, 2017

In Defense of Poor Folk!

Stop acting like the Deep South is a monolith. Start acting like liberals.

August 27, 2017August 29, 2017

Review: S-Town Podcast

If you absorbed S-Town Podcast like 6 damn billion other people did, this is what I think about all that.

August 18, 2017August 30, 2019

Mama’s Blood Oath

Aunt Jenny Johnson taught her boys to shoot, made them swear to kill. Wonder why?

August 13, 2017August 15, 2017

Trumplandia!

Loving the South while hating some of it including the racism that I wish would go die in a hole.

August 4, 2017August 15, 2017

Hellfire, William Gay Could Tell a Story

William Gay died in 2012 in Hohenwald, Tennessee, but lord Jesus that man could tell a story.

I’m Rachel, a jaded twenty-something English grad student looking to tell some stories. Currently based in Knoxville, Tennessee, 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.