Jade T. Woodridge, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/jade-t-woodridge/ A Home for Black Women Writers Mon, 26 Jul 2021 06:46:05 +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 Jade T. Woodridge, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/jade-t-woodridge/ 32 32 153713158 “The Hanging Tree” https://www.midnightandindigo.com/the-hanging-tree/ Thu, 27 May 2021 04:00:34 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=78031 No roads led here, this place like a scar of an old wound. No signs marked its location, no post hung with its name. There was no map of its existence or a print of paper for it to claim. Long ago, however, this wasn’t so. Surrounded by a sea of grass, the dirt road long since grown in, the white-columned house sat beneath the gaze of the oak on the hill. Daniel stood beneath the tree, shaded by its leaves, its branches spread high like reaching arms, thick, strong, and proud. Its trunk was old and sturdy, a monument

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