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Checking In
Author’s Note This is an excerpt from my forthcoming novel, set in the Deep South and centered around Jane Powers—a schoolteacher unexpectedly tasked with running an inn in historic Natchez, Mississippi. As guests arrive, Jane finds herself learning the art of hospitality on the fly and stumbling through through the day with all the Southern…
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Just a Little House on a Hill
It was just a little house on a hill in central Mississippi. It was old and run down when I was a child 40 years ago. Covered in light green asbestos shingles, the little house on the hill had a concrete slab porch with a roof that was held up by three skinny columns. The…
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Tornado Pancakes
Life moved slowly in the tiny community of Whitehall, MS, population 276. Whitehall ran along a state highway dotted with modest farmhouses and mobile homes, much like the entire state of Mississippi. There are no stoplights in Whitehall. There’s a Baptist Church and a quick mart gas station selling fresh hot pizza until at least…