Cortia Hawthorne, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/cortia-hawthorne/ A Home for Black Women Writers Fri, 10 Jul 2020 03:31:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 https://i0.wp.com/www.midnightandindigo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-file.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Cortia Hawthorne, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/cortia-hawthorne/ 32 32 153713158 If We Could Talk https://www.midnightandindigo.com/if-we-could-talk/ Fri, 10 Jul 2020 04:00:57 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=77140 I remember the time you left your phone at home in our first apartment. It was an old loft close to campus. It was raggedy, the stove was too small, and mildew stained the grout in the bathroom. It was our first home. We filled the dusty apartment with mixed-matched hand me down furniture and invited everyone over because we were so proud to be starting a life together. You left for work that morning, as usual, to the Boys and Girls Club (a job in which my friend put in a good word for you) and I was still

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