Chesya Burke's "Haint Me Too"

Ghosts come in many forms. In Chesya Burke's story "Haint Me Too," this ghost is of the angry kind. She haunts the Myrtle House, a Southern plantation home, inhabited by "the Perfect Southern American Dream" ("father, mother, three boys and two girls"). Young Shea, the daughter of a Black sharecropping family living on the land, witnesses the haint that lives in Myrtle House. She sees its terror–and its power. And soon, events unfold that force Shea to seek out that exact power. Read Hex Life for this story.   Recommended in this episode: Showtime's Yellowjackets and Root Magic by Eden Royce   UP NEXT: R. A. Busby's "Not the Man I Married" Mel and Lisa wrote a second book! Buy Toil and Trouble here!