Kristie Robin Johnson, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/kristie-robin-johnson/ A Home for Black Women Writers Mon, 26 Jul 2021 06:47:56 +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 Kristie Robin Johnson, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/kristie-robin-johnson/ 32 32 153713158 A Meditation on Return Voyages https://www.midnightandindigo.com/return-voyages/ Tue, 18 May 2021 20:59:40 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=77994 I. Places that I am terrified of returning to: Shitty $49-a-night motels with dingy sheets and showers overrun with mildew smelling of sweat, cigarettes, and desperation; the backseat of a 1979 Cutlass parked in the dark alley between the corner store and T’s Restaurant pinned underneath a bumbling teenager who’s vigorously making love to my inner thigh; the altars of Pentecostal churches swaying with what old women believe is Jesus, asking forgiveness for sins that I’m going to commit again and again; the pathetic drips, buzzes, and beeps of cold hospital rooms; the moon-sized dread of waiting for people to

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