Therapy is the supportive process of accompanying one’s journey of transcendence from darkness to light to darkness again, ultimately landing somewhere in the middle. Therapy is an experience I wish for us all. And that is all that…
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It’s here – midnight & indigo issue no.12! midnight & indigo celebrates Black women writers with the fourth Speculative fiction issue of their literary journal. A collection of stories that traverse the strange and the hauntingly real, 21 Black women…
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It’s here – midnight & indigo issue no.11! Featuring new short stories and essays by 10 emerging and established Black women storytellers from the…
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At first, there was only the Sun. Shining brightly, he illuminated powerfully in space. Sun knew he was a burning ball of gas…too hot…
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It was cold on the way to Grandma’s house. Mom had plucked Tye and Jordan from their beds at some still-nighttime hour of the…
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I grew up in the heart of the Midwest during the 1970s, the era of peace, love, Vietnam War protests and what others claimed to be the end…
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I took the longest strides of my life during my first winter in America. Race-walking in between classes as my nostrils felt slithering pain at every inhalation and…
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It’s here – midnight & indigo issue no.12! midnight & indigo celebrates Black women writers with the fourth Speculative fiction issue of their literary journal.…
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I text Alicia that I’m outside and when she responds, I’m already ringing the doorbell. the text was just a courtesy. whether she’s ready for…
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“Curse this damned place. I don’t want anything to do with here.” Holson, my best childhood friend, slammed the door and headed off on foot…
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1. The day my sister disappeared, the uncomfortable red hue of the evening sky and the vibrancy of the grass complemented each other. The oddity…
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It’s here – midnight & indigo digital issue no.1! Featuring 10 short stories and essays by Black women writers from the U.S., Africa, and Europe,…
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It is 2014. You are a Nigerian living in the United States. You are the parent of a U.S.-born child. The immigration authorities have given…
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Grandmothers Some little girls, with plaits and blemishes, cook rice and jerk chicken as the heat crawls down their spine in the shack. They wipe…
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