Leandra Marshall, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/leandra-marshall/ A Home for Black Women Writers Tue, 24 Jun 2025 01:20:20 +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 Leandra Marshall, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/leandra-marshall/ 32 32 153713158 To Decay https://www.midnightandindigo.com/to-decay/ Mon, 26 May 2025 21:05:19 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=80371 Clutching three rotten apples in a single hand, she stood at the screen door and waited for the shifting dark clouds to veil the relentless sun. There was a summer storm sliding over the valley, promises of flash floods providing bittersweet reprieve from the heat. Sweat dried sticky on the back of her neck even in the shade of the narrow entryway and something prickled there, all the peach fuzz rising at once. She licked her chapped lips, tasting his spit and waxy remnants of saccharine strawberry lip balm. With one bare foot wedged in the gap under the screen

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