Alifah Omar, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/alifah-omar/ A Home for Black Women Writers Sat, 31 Oct 2020 04:16:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/www.midnightandindigo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-file.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Alifah Omar, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/alifah-omar/ 32 32 153713158 “Unseen” https://www.midnightandindigo.com/unseen/ Thu, 15 Oct 2020 04:00:57 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=77550 Cast aside the bloody hands of the self-righteous for they brittle and collapse amongst the bones of saints.   The tree leaves blew just as they did nineteen years earlier, and Adrina remembered it all. She remembered dropping clothes in a huge black kettle full of boiling water when her mother and Aunt Josephine pulled up in the wagon. She remembered her mother’s frowning face, the over-washed dress with the fading, blue-flowered print, and the brown hat on her head. She remembered her aunt was the first to jump out the wagon when the horse came to a stop. Dust

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