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The Ancient Hours | Literary HubLiterary Hub


The following is excerpted from Michael Bible s novel, The Ancient Hours
, a fable of the American South in the highest tradition. Bible s work has appeared in the Oxford American, The Paris Review Daily, and Al-Jazeera America, among others. He is a former bookseller at Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi, and lives in New York.
Another night at the Starlight Diner and Ms. Rivers takes our orders. The horizon is a black sliver against the sun. All our old mysteries unite. Our coffees get cold. We call our wives and tell them not to wait up. We present our latest research to the group. Harmony had a much darker history than the one we were told. On that eighth-grade trip Mayor Presley left out the Molasses Massacre. We found it in our research with many other stories the town fathers wished to remain forgotten. ....

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