Ghosts in the Cotton - The Delta Collection

The Mississippi Delta is more than a place. It's a breath held too long. A hymn hummed through teeth clenched with memory. A land where ghosts don't haunt-they linger-in the cotton, in the blood, in the slow drawl of a story retold.

These sixteen tales are stitched from that soil-tales of men and women too proud to kneel, too burdened to rise, and too damned to be forgotten. Some are funny. Some are brutal. All are honest.

You'll find gamblers and gospel singers, dead possums and sacred sins, preachers who lose their faith and women who find their fire. You'll meet Zee Blackwell, a man who knows how to find lost things-except himself. And you'll walk with Daniel, a preacher's son drafted into a different kind of hell.

This is a collection of Southern Gothic grit and Delta reckoning. No salvation guaranteed. No comfort promised.

Author's Bio:

Romer Shaw was born in New Orleans, raised on stories older than the soil, and called-again and again-back to the Mississippi Delta.

His roots stretch through generations of Mississippi blood, but it's more than lineage that binds him to that land. It's a pull. A presence. Something spiritual. As if the alluvial earth itself had a claim on his soul.

Writing in the tradition of Faulkner, Baldwin, Woodrell, and Mosley, Romer crafts Southern Gothic stories soaked in memory, fire, and moral reckoning. His work centers the Delta-its ghosts, its heat, its brutal beauty-as both character and curse.

He now lives in Northwest Montana, where the mountains keep their own kind of silence-but the Delta still speaks. Always.