Blackness By the Appalachian Road

my own drawing to illustrate my story

Blackness.

By the side of the road, deep in Southern Appalachia.

A country store on the left with a dirt parking lot to its right. The paved road goes onwards to the right.

One day I walked to this store and I saw the Blackness. There was a patch of green grass where this black patch was, but today there was not a trace of any green blades. This mess of…