Courtney McCluney, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/courtney-mccluney/ A Home for Black Women Writers Wed, 20 Dec 2023 05:02:40 +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 Courtney McCluney, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/courtney-mccluney/ 32 32 153713158 A Motherless Woman https://www.midnightandindigo.com/motherless-woman/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 05:02:40 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=79029 Grandma. I always just referred to her as that without any qualifiers. I said Grandma Sarah whenever I referenced my paternal grandmother. That’s always how it was. I rely on pictures to remember Grandma’s face. Her other features are more vivid to me. Peppermint. Fresh baked bread. Softness. A guttural cough. Smooth hands and hair. False teeth. A faint smell of cigarettes. A comical sneeze that made me giggle. Crusty toenails. A gentle smile. This is how I remember her. I do remember some of her facial expressions. Her eyebrows were thin and moved with her voice. The higher she

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