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J. C. White — Author of Fiction
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#Author #Writer #Blogger #WritingCommunity Author of Southern Lit Fiction and Southern Gothics
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Noodling
“Look at you,” Noah said. “Trying to sweet-talk a fish with fancy jewelry.”
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October 26, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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The Death of Literature: Or How the Professors Ate the Library
“Take but degree away, untune that string, and, hark, what discord follows!”
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October 17, 2025 at 10:56 PM
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The Storm on Omohundro Drive
It wasn’t the first time I’d heard that word. But it would be the last time I’d ever hear it in the same way.
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October 13, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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The Quantum Delusion: Why Smart People Are Dumb About What They Know
All want to teach. Nobody’s trying to learn; and everyone’s trying to preserve their personal version of existence.
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October 6, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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Southern Gothic Flash Fiction
The Church of Faith & Deeds with Signs Following
A family of six with generational hare-lip scars cut their faces like old whipmarks. Two cousins sat side by side, one cross-eyed inward, the other outward, so neither met the other’s gaze. Childre…
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October 2, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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A Master Class on Freaks in Rural America
by J.C. White – 2025 The great author from Georgia, Flannery O’Connor, once said in response to a question about why Southerners write about freaks so well, “because we in the South are still…
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September 10, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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The Ledger and the Riot
“One of them said, as if speaking to the wind, that big money was pushing little people against smaller people and the only thing getting crushed was culture. He said it and the wind did noth…
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September 7, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Just having a little fun.
A Tale of Paper Tigers
And lo, the vessels sank not by reason of the enemy, but by their own clumsiness. And the scribes wrote it down as a victory, saying unto the people, Behold the terror of our navy, though the fish …
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August 29, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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The Providence of Greatness
Her generosity, her success, became their expectation. Her brilliance and confidence became their wound. She was punished for both.
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August 27, 2025 at 12:11 AM
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The Last Mile from Black Bluff
“No one speaks. The smell works its way into their faces, into the cloth at their throats. The father climbs down slow and tells them to bring her out.”
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August 15, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Antichrist Ascendant
“Below him, men and women scurry like insects under overturned stones. Flames claw at stone arches, devouring marble, turning monuments of arrogance to dust. “
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August 11, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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The First Son
“Never once was Jonah told to be careful.”
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August 8, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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A southern gothic flash fiction piece.

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Boys in the Bloodlight
He had sons, all dead or gone to hell, and one boy they said was no boy at all but a wolf in trousers who gutted a man in Orchardville for smiling too long at his sister. “
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August 4, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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My latest gothic fiction piece. Hope you enjoy.

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The Pale Fires of El Llano Estacado
They rode like wolves and struck like lightning and vanished like smoke. And the Apache, for all their teeth, were nothing but bitches beneath them.”
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August 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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My latest blog, a Southern Gothic flash fiction piece. Hope you haven’t just eaten.

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The Womb and the Wall
“The vial lay atop her dresser, open, half full still, the label worn by sweat but legible all the same: belladonna. I’d not seen it before. It had not been mine.”
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July 26, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Latest gothic fiction piece. Check it out.

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A Quiet in the Smoke
He smelled wood and cordite and the last supper’s lard still caking the pan.
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July 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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The Southern Agrarian
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The Southern Agrarian
This clearly is a kind of faith, and a faith moreover that is here earnestly recommended by two scientists who are aggressively contemptuous of faith.
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July 19, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Noir Flash Fiction
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The Stranger Appeared
By morning, the stranger was gone. But a silence had settled over the town, an unease that slithered beneath the ordinary. Doors opened slower, conversations trailed off mid-sentence.
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July 13, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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Just got these in today. More for the TBR stack.
July 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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Killer Idea!
“Yes’em. We spent our whole lives calling it old wives’ talk. Said it weren’t real. Said no woman ever died from it, so why worry? But it is real. And they are dying.”
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July 5, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Got these two beauties in the mail today. Off to the TBR pile for a bit, while I finish my current squeeze—Cemetery Road by Greg Iles.
July 3, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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Time for some gritty Barry Hannah. My TBR list is dwindling down to about 25, but I love me some Barry Hannah.
June 28, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Always the Artist, Never the Art
Writing is exile. Painting is penance. Music is the weeping of a soul that cannot be held. The artist lives in a room with no windows, praying, always praying, for someone to knock on the other sid…
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June 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Always the Artist, Never the Art
Writing is exile. Painting is penance. Music is the weeping of a soul that cannot be held. The artist lives in a room with no windows, praying, always praying, for someone to knock on the other sid…
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June 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Living Outside Boxes
“Pablo Picasso once said, “Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.” Creativity comes from peeling away the things which quintessentially make us adults, and ins…
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June 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM