The House at the Bayou
The schoolhouse stood at the edge of the bayou in a part of Louisiana where the map had stopped caring. It was an old warehouse built in the 1870s for storing cotton, or maybe rice—Hattie Beauregard could not remember, and the records had burned in 1920, or maybe 1918, or maybe never existed at all. The roof sagged in the middle like a tired man's back. The walls were cypress plank, dark with...
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