Andrea Byrd, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/andrea-byrd/ A Home for Black Women Writers Mon, 07 Jun 2021 22:50:28 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 https://i0.wp.com/www.midnightandindigo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-file.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Andrea Byrd, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/andrea-byrd/ 32 32 153713158 “The Eyes That Follow Me” https://www.midnightandindigo.com/eyes-that-follow-me/ Mon, 05 Oct 2020 12:05:00 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=77296 The fireflies hovered in front of me, their green bodies emitting a radio buzz with their wings. Crickets hummed and perched themselves in trees as a lone frog breached the surface of a creek nearby. Gallons of pressure were placed atop my head. I blinked to clear my blurry vision. A man was hunched over the fire, feeding it with clothes that were bloodied and stuck together. The fire crackled loudly, and its embers bounced around him—he didn’t seem to care. My fingers twitched and wrestled with the thin barn rope that held them together. He noticed this movement out

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