In the Land of Cane (ePub)

M.D. Shannon is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin in the Performance of Literature, and he attended the Graduate School of Texas A&M International in Language and Literature. Although he has written fiction, poetry, and screenplays for more than two decades, his work is largely unrecognized. This self-published collection of his work is comprised of seven manuscripts, including a novel, five short stories, and a group of early poems. Having recently recovered from a life-threantening illness, he now writes fiction and non fiction. He lives alone in the upper Gulf Coast region of Texas.

“In the Land Of Cane” is a fictional novel that parallels true events that occurred following The Civil War when Afro-Americans were unjustly imprisoned and forced to labor in ore mines and remote sugarcane fields. Douglas Blackmon’s 2008 Pulitzer-Prize winning book in non fiction details this little-known era of "neo-slavery" that continued into the 1930's. Published by Random House, the book is titled "Slavery By Any Other Name. "

.....Wilkie came to the tiny town of Jefferson. Sauntering passed the sheriff’s office, he bid good-day to a group of old red-necks who sat on the porch smoking cigars and drinking liquor. Entering the town’s general store, he stepped up to the counter and set down a pair of shiny nickels.
“Corn meal and sugar,” he said to Elmer Smithy, the store’s owner, and the town’s volunteer deputy.
Elmer weighed out the appropriate amounts on a tin scale. Bagging up the sugar and the meal, he handed two small sacks to Wilkie who then slipped the sacks inside his shirt. Elmer noticed that Wilkie’s shirt bulged open, and other items were inside it.
“What else you got inside that shirt, boy?” he asked.
Wilkie delightfully reached inside his shirt and lifted out a peach for Elmer to see. “They’s peaches,” he replied. “Sweet, ripe Georgia peaches.”
“Where’d you get ‘em, boy?”
“I picks ‘em up on the orchard road. Harvest

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