The House of Drowning Cotton
The plantation house had been dying for a long time before Silas became its heir. It was a two-story structure of white wood and white paint, both of which had surrendered to the Mississippi humidity decades ago. The paint peeled in long, curling strips that hung from the porch like the skin of a snake that had shed itself and moved on. The columns that supported the porch roof sagged in the...
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