“There is no escape—we pay for the violence of our ancestors.” - Frank Herbert, Dune

Place remembers.

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Rows of old tent-shaped graves stand in uneven lines across a Tennessee hillside, the Stamps family headstone visible among them in soft afternoon light.

The veil won’t part, but it might tremble — just enough to remind us that love, faith, and superstition are all the same kind of stubborn.

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All Y'All: Queering Southernness In US Fiction (1980-2020), Heidi Siegrist

The South is often perceived as a haunted place in its region's literature, one that is strange, deviant, or "queer."

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