Karen Frederick, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/karen-frederick/ A Home for Black Women Writers Tue, 13 Oct 2020 00:59:26 +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 Karen Frederick, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/karen-frederick/ 32 32 153713158 “Emma” https://www.midnightandindigo.com/emma/ Tue, 13 Oct 2020 04:00:10 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=77231 Sometimes she thought it must be loneliness that made her see things. She could see the dark lord’s face peering down from the clock tower on top of the courthouse. His red eyes followed her. No matter how tightly she closed her eyes she could not rid her mind of the image. Sometimes she thought it must be loneliness that made her see things. She had plenty of folks around her. The house was full of kids like her; some small and some big. Seven in all and she was the youngest. She was small and round and runty and

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