Laura Barker, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/laura-barker/ A Home for Black Women Writers Sat, 31 Oct 2020 04:21:22 +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 Laura Barker, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/laura-barker/ 32 32 153713158 “Chest of Hope” https://www.midnightandindigo.com/chest-of-hope/ Mon, 05 Oct 2020 12:04:00 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=77314 When Sunduq was four she got stuck in the hope chest in her grandmother’s bedroom. Her family looked for her for hours, eventually calling the authorities, who said, “Most children who go missing are actually inside their own houses.” They came to conduct a home search and Sunduq’s mother found her in the chest, which had a self-locking mechanism and could not be opened from the inside. “Why didn’t you shout for us?” said Sunduq’s mother. Her face was wet with tears and angry relief. She gathered Sunduq up into her arms. They did not cuddle frequently, and to Sunduq

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