Desiree Evans, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/desiree-evans/ A Home for Black Women Writers Mon, 22 Jun 2020 04:07:23 +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 Desiree Evans, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/desiree-evans/ 32 32 153713158 “Holding Pattern” https://www.midnightandindigo.com/holding-pattern/ Mon, 18 May 2020 04:00:45 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=75075 When Lenaya is twenty-seven she begins to see pieces of her mama everywhere. In the red lip color worn by a stranger at the bar, in the thick country accent of her bus driver. In the solemn way her husband says her name; in the mirror when she stares at herself long enough, her expression darkening, turning inward. She is living up north now, in the coldest part of a Chicago winter hell. There are mornings she watches the snow click against the windshield, tap-tap-tapping like little icy fingernails against the glass. The static of the radio is lonesome in

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