The Mississippi Delta is not always dark with rain. Some autumn mornings, the sun rises over Moon Lake, or Eagle, or Choctaw, or Blue, or Roebuck, all the wide, deep waters of the state, and when it does, its dawn is as rosy with promise and hope as any other.
Lewis NordanTag: mississippi mississippi-authors
The sky had cleared, and now the sun was overhead, already baking the wet ground so that you could see the humidity drifting lazily above the cotton stalks.
John GrishamTag: mississippi mississippi-authors mississippi-writers
Then the light changed the water, until all about them the woods in the rising wind seemed to grow taller and blow inward together and suddenly turn dark. The rain struck heavily. A huge tail seemed to lash through the air and the river broke in a wound of silver.
Eudora WeltyTag: mississippi mississippi-authors mississippi-writers the-wide-net
Generally the first week in September brings the hottest weather of the year, and this was no exception. Overhead the fans turned slow, their paddle blades stirring the air up close to the ceiling but nowheres else...
Shelby FooteTag: mississippi mississippi-authors mississippi-writers
Later they took him to Jackson and that explained it; he was crazy.
Shelby FooteTag: mississippi mississippi-authors mississippi-writers
That's just it, Eva said with a gleam in her eyes that matched the rhinestones on her glasses, you had to get somebody to teach you, to facilitate. Literacy wasn't like a piece of my mama's lemon cake you handed over to somebody on a plate.
Minrose GwinTag: reading literacy mississippi-authors mississippi-writers
August in Mississippi is different from July. As to heat, it is not a question of degree but of kind. July heat is furious, but in August the heat has killed even itself and lies dead over us.
Elizabeth SpencerTag: summer weather mississippi-authors
He read it over twenty times and though the darkness that sang on held steady about him, the unhurried words fell bright through his mind, going down golden through deep water, and when one passed another came, ceaselessly, shining.
Elizabeth SpencerTag: words reading mississippi-authors
To each other, they talked at a gallop. Literature turned them on; their ideas flowed, ran back and forth like a current. (The Cousins)
Elizabeth SpencerTag: reading mississippi-authors
People hear whispers as loud as guns.
Elizabeth SpencerTag: mississippi-authors
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