The Abscess at Thornfield
The heat in May 1928 was a living thing. It pressed down on the town of Oakhaven, Mississippi, like a hand on the back of your neck, pushing you down into the red clay. Silas Thornfield sat on his porch and watched the cotton fields stretch out behind his house—fields that had been his grandfather's, his father's, and now his, though they produced less each year, and the land grew tired beneath...
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