The Blackwood Root
ACT I: THE SEED The house had been dead for thirty years before Silas came back. Blackwood Manor sat on twelve hundred acres of Mississippi land that had been exhausted by cotton and exhaustion, the soil turned to red dust and the fields grown thin as paper. The house itself was a skeleton—columns fallen, roof sagging, the wide galleries where Silas's grandmother had sat in rocking chairs...
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