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    Gone South
    Gone South
    Gone South
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    Gone South

    By Darrel Bird

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    A man is sent to Louisiana to teach in a small backwoods black community. He locks horns with the devils brigade in the form of the Klu Klux Clan, his school perish boss and an old voodoo woman with eyes black as midnight.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDarrel Bird
    Release dateMay 29, 2011
    ISBN9781458185617
    Gone South
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    Darrel Bird

    Darrel Bird has written and published 47 short stories. He attended Bakersfield college, and is an avid motorcyclist.

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      Jerry Brooks stood weeping silently beside the mess of charred wood and ashes that was once his church. His eyes stared past the chimney left standing in the smoldering heap, to the field of stunted corn that stood baking in the July heat of Madison Parish, Louisiana, and on to the woods at the edge of the cornfield. He thought about how he had come to be in this little black community called The Island.

      Jerry had earned his Master of Education at the University of Washington, and it was about that time that God had called him into the ministry. He told his parents, and they helped him through the Dallas Theological Seminary, or, as he liked to call it, the Dallas Theological Cemetery. He was the campus rebel all the way through seminary, and he challenged the theology instructors at every opportunity. In return, the church gave him an assignment to get him out of their hair, and that’s how he wound up in Louisiana.

      He was tall and rather good-looking, though his brown hair stuck out at all angles. No matter how much he combed it, it wouldn’t behave. In college, they called him Electric Head after one student remarked that he looked like he had just been electrocuted. That is, they called him that when they didn’t need his help with their homework; academically, he had been about three steps ahead of most of his classmates.

      We have just the place for you, since you have a degree in teaching,

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