Athena Dixon, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/athena-dixon/ A Home for Black Women Writers Wed, 05 Jul 2023 04:28:49 +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 Athena Dixon, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/athena-dixon/ 32 32 153713158 Running Tabs https://www.midnightandindigo.com/running-tabs/ Wed, 05 Jul 2023 04:07:41 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=78709 A country block from our Noble Street home, Ralph’s Deli had always been. The store was the epicenter of our side of the tracks. A low-income neighborhood not too far from the metropolitan houses that looked like a government subsidized, cookie-cutter suburb or the tracts of single family homes sometimes owned and sometimes rented. At Ralph’s, the fried chicken and jojos fogged the hot food case before being slipped into aluminum lined bags by the pound or the piece. There were long blue Kisko Freezies in the waist highs next to the checkout. Coolers of drinks and frozen foods. All

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