K E Garland, Author at midnight & indigo

Àbíkú

K E Garland — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:34:28 +0000

I arranged a reading with a Santería priestess per my sister’s advice. Our ancestors had provided her with divine clarity and when she inquired about messages for me, they said, She is a skeptic. She has to do this herself. A week later, I followed instructions: I dressed in all white, set an unlit white candle nearby, and impatiently waited for the priestess to call. Introductions were short and, within the first five minutes, several spirits appeared as a caucus of cacophony. They overwhelmed the priestess with declarations, laughter, and advice: She comes from a long line of Native Americans.

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Family Ties

K E Garland — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 05:00:37 +0000

My mother was born with one kidney when most of us are born with two. This sole organ singlehandedly cleansed her system, until it, too, shut down—deciding that providing full functioning for her body was too much to bear. By her twenties, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday were devoted to hospital visits. She spent four hours in a reclining chair, where she covered her torso and legs with a warm woven blanket to prepare for dialysis. When I was a child, I sat beside her and watched a machine pull blood, bright and crimsoned, from her bulging fistula, into a tube

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