Baby Angel, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/baby-angel/ A Home for Black Women Writers Tue, 29 Jul 2025 23:49:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://i0.wp.com/www.midnightandindigo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-file.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Baby Angel, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/baby-angel/ 32 32 153713158 Mother’s Revenge https://www.midnightandindigo.com/mothers-revenge/ Wed, 30 Jul 2025 04:00:33 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=80586 The last time my mother broke my heart, my brother and his college friends had the pleasure of witnessing it. We were all gathered in the common area of his shared apartment in upstate New York. Of course, she had traveled from Africa to celebrate her favorite child’s birthday. As the youngest child of an African mother, his being the most preferred was almost inevitable. “It’s not that your brother is my favorite. You are just harder to love,” she said in a manner intended to be perceived as coy. When two or more siblings and at least one parent

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